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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: MyUserName on January 25, 2021, 06:41:24 AM
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Not a "post your footage" thread, not a space to brag about what tricks you landed, but rather an opportunity to describe the "little things" of your latest session.
Who were you with? Where did you go? How was the vibe? Was it mellow, or did someone go off? Were you alone? Was it your first time skating in a while? Was it cathartic or frustrating? Was the best part the skating or something else entirely?
Share it here.
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Skated about a mile from my house to a threestair with a shootout rail. Homie got his cruiser run over on the way and snapped his deck. It was funny, we laughed it off. Stopped at a ledge to warm up, did a couple tricks and carried on to the shootout. I was popping on to it but sticking. The landing spits out right into a busy road so timing the traffic was super frustrating. Didnt get the trick but i know i can go back at a time with less traffic and land it.
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I don't skate
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i went to the maxx fuccboi park in center city after running some errands cause it gets dark early and it’s lit. it was empty cause it was 25 degrees and windy, i skated a board cobbled together from homie parts cause my actual board ended up in a river the session before this and i don’t have the scratch to buy a new set up right now. i landed the stuff i usually land.
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Went to one of the parks near me by myself. When I got there everything was wet and there was weird sand everywhere. I asked one of the kids what happened and he said about half an hour ago some guy tried to drop in, ate shit, and the side of his glasses got pushed into the side of his head near the temple. The water and sand were there to clean up all of the blood and vomit. I left after hearing that and went to catch up with the homies at a manuel spot and rolled my ankle lol. Managed to skate half decent before that happened though so not super bummed.
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Yesterday was one of the first days in weeks with blue skies and above freezing. I went to this schoolyard with stunning views over lake Zurich. There were still piles (!) of snow so a few ledges were not skateable but some where fine and the ground was dry. I always skate alone with my wife filming. She got a few clips of boardslides and 50/50s on ledges I had done before but this time got them from different angles. Got a clip of a flatground kickflip too with the lake and hills in the background and steel blue skies. When you watch it you almost forget to look at the trick as the scenery is so stunning. Today its snowing again so I am happy for this opportunity.
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This Saturday my 8 year old son wanted to take his RC car and finger board to the skate park. He does not want to skateboard yet cause it’s ‘too dangerous’.
Went over before lunch it was sunny but windy and 30 degrees. Had my Dane 1 and had so much fun skating shitty prefab ramps with that thang.
A 6 year old girl showed up half way through and was Trying to drop in on the pyramid. I convinced her to start by riding up ramps and she listened. I then went and nicely told the mom about the dangers of skateboarding and she said ‘oh, she’s my little daredevil. She’s already had broken bones’.
Also let the girl ride the Dane 1 and she said ‘you have a really nice skateboard’. Sounds like the daughter has more sense than the mom.
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Snowskate sessions only recently due to -15 celcius weather and everything indoors being covidclosed
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Hit up a parking garage at a COVID-vacated movie theater while it snowed and cruised around making a lot of noise powersliding until I warmed up. Then I skated flat for a while, which I almost never do, and worked on some tricks I wish I could land. Even made a little progress on a couple of them. I've gotten hurt a lot this winter, so the low-impact stuff turned out to be pretty rewarding and it made me want to do that some more. Maybe I will after my kids are asleep tonight, especially if the closest parks haven't dried out yet.
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Skated with two of my long time homies from high school. Landed some tricks on flat for the first time in years. After skating flat and curbs went to the local and didn’t skate because it was crowded and not a mask in sight. Skated again a few hours later at night and had a blast in the cold.
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just went today before work on a big flatground spot next to my house, it was fun, just did a little bit of flat tricks and over a trash bag I found, skated for 40min, best way to start the day, sucks to skate alone but its better than not skating! this spot is a blessing, is like almost a whole block of flatground, and everything is closed in the morning, not too close of houses, so perfect for fast solo mission
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Took my puppy to the DIY spot and cruised around while she chased me.
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Went to the park Sunday. For some reason it was flooded with rollerbladers when I usually see like 1 a month. They waxed the ledges up so me and buddy just skated the curb trying to get back to back slappy tricks. Slappy crook shuv out was the highlight. Got a few tricks out of the bank first try which was nice.
My son, he’s 8, and some other kid figured out how to ride down stairs and were super proud of themselves.
And my axle slipped on my brand new indys which is lame.
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A sunny Saturday but it was cold as fuck so no one else was there aside from one local die hard grom. Did some ollies and relearned how to skate transition.
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it rained yesterday so I went to the good parking garage in town, people I know were already there. Dorked around and did some slappies and manuals. I wasn't feeling coordinated so I left after about a half hour.
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I post on the slap message boards so it was a really long time ago
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Slipped off the coping of a 6ft onto flat at my local, now my wrist is parked for the next 3 months.
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I live less than a mile away from an indoor park. Haven’t been in awhile cuz some locals have an indoor spot themselves.
They built a new ride on up ledge that is super fun. Crazy to see all the local young kids there progress. Haven’t been in a couple months and kids who previously were just learning to drop in on the bowl are now doing backside grinds and early grab airs. I love skating
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Skated some curbs with friends. Outdoors, social distanced. Was good- everyone has been skating regularly so we all saw some progress. Nice sunny San Diego afternoon in the 70s. Life is good.
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i found a new spot in my neighborhood with a weird rounded metal bench, fucked around on it for a while and then i went home. i love finding new ledges because they're pretty rare in my town, this one is kind of awkward to skate, you can't really do any slides on it but it grinds well
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cruising on damp concrete at a frigid empty park
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I went to a parking garage. Met two guys that just started skating. I am not the most social person but had a lot of fun with them. It was really refreshing to see someone being really stoked about tricks like kickflips and 50-50s.
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Tore my ACL chasing my cat mid December. I can't remember my last session. So lame.
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Went to the spot, tried a 360 flip, fs shove it and a kickflip. Missed all of them, talked for the rest of the session and then went and ate cheese burgers and fries with my boss.
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its hella winter here like mad snow in canada where i live. there is this goodlife fitness gym thats closed down cause of rone dog and its like a hybrid parking garage with 1 side open the other sides closed. i just hit it on my own was good times worked on some shit
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It was really cold out and I was wearing gloves.
I pretended I was Heath for a second...it was the black gloves. Than I ollied the hip and got about a foot of the ground.
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First time skating in 4 months when the weather co-operated last Friday. Went to a park Ive only been to a couple times, new deck, new trucks, new shoes. Wheels slipped out on a bs180 and went straight to tail bone on pool coping right in front of all the locals. Feelsgoodman see ya guys in the spring.
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Went with my brother - dodged some big puddles and muddied my grip
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There's this park where I live that has a small bowl in it, I started skating the benches more regularly and just trying to do lines and stuff. Twisted my ankle second to last time I skated trying to hop over on of the benches, yesterday I went there and landed the line I was trying, it was kinda sketchy because I wasn't really in the mood but I still got really happy, specially at the end because I did an ollie on a street bump and I haven't done a good one of these in a really long time. I'm just really stoke to be skating there, feels like I'm starting a revolution one trick at a time, soon enough there will be tons of people skating that shit like it's a tighter crustier version of love park.
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I saw a dad in his 50’s with his son pull up in a Tesla with vanity plates at the skatepark by my office after work. Both had boards and helmets. Dad went right to the quarter pipe and started teaching himself to drop in.
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Skated some flat in my garage yesterday. Had alot of fun. Working on switch fs 360 and switch bs flip. Got really close on both but ultimately just called it a day after getting pitched a few times. Hoping I'll land one of them next session.
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Skated Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at a plaza that was in a "green zone" for the full week before. Watched fencing come down. Felt good that the city gets to breathe again. Let's hope it stays safe/that way.
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Last session outside was months ago, then Winter began..My local indoor is my 8' x 10' backroom, But two days ago I made a new game..it goes heelflip,fakie kick flip, then 3-flip in a row. I have to push myself off the walls to go back in forth so its a fun challenge..a fun challenge that is self rewarded by a joint and a beer. Hope you guys in warm climates are getting after it.
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Got to skate with two of my buddies this past Sunday. We were just gonna hit a curb, but then it started raining so we skated around in some parking garages downtown. One of my friends is typically a bowl/park guy, so we were all stoked when he landed a ledge trick that he battled for awhile.
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Its in the 50s and windy lately in Socal. I tried to get warm for the majority of the 2 hour session today. Started out dry-cold, got sweaty and warm for 20 minutes, then immediately got wet-cold.
Also started trying to get the nerves up to learn switch front blunts on small ledges. This and the weather made me feel super soft
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16 day ago, before I fell off curb while running and thrashed my ankle,
was super tired and didn't have much in me because I had walked 3 miles then ran 4.5 and it was an overcast day. went to the secret diy spot and was the only person there so I put Wu Chronicles and dodged puddles. the ocean was pretty loud because of the king tides and I like that noise a lot. Landed a bunch of board slides, no complies, and shuvit variations. Couple short and tall tail slides. I left exhausted and figured I shouldn't skate for a few days to avoid getting hurt, planning to go back over the weekend to practice popping over the bump/tortoise shells. I get hurt fucking running. fun session
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Skated a pretty crusty ditch spot called little surf with my good homie, it was all pretty heckride. I ate shit ollieing into one of the steep banks of the ditch and got chewed up. It started drizzling and but I was able to get that Ollie into the bank a few tries later and a couple other tricks. My buddy locked in a long ass feeble to fakie on some of the parking blocks that were there perched on the banks. The rain got to serious and we ducked back out and looked for a covered spot. The rain stopped and it dried up enough for us to have a fun slappy sesh on my parking block. Overall 10/10 sesh
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Dry cold day in Canadas west coast, skated some flat on a smooth new road recently completed in the outskirts of the rural Rez I live by. Neighbour walks by and asks if I’ve bombed the most insane switchback road in town... shoulda said yes and got mad bad boy rep in the neighbourhood?
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Skated this underground parking lot spot under a movie theater that's been closed down since pre-covid days. Skated there after work today and had a primarily mellow flatground sesh for about 45 minutes. Based on how tired I felt and how my first goes at 5050ing the ledge went, I knew it was a day to take it easy and stick to some flatground. Recently recovered from a rolled ankle and stoked to be back on the board.
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Went out last Saturday since the streets were dry and the sun was out (rare in January where I'm from) and skated a two up two down at my local farmer's market square. Top stair had a lil wax but is rough cement, I'm planning on transforming that puppy with lacquer soon.
I live downtown and no matter where I'm skating, I make a point to reroute and wallride nollie (whatever it's called) over this little spicket right before I get home. It's a block from my apartment and a perfect way to end a session! Here's a photo I took when scouting for spots this summer after I moved in. I love this little guy :)
(https://i.imgur.com/6iaWgDY_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
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Took my six year old son to the local school, where I have a parking block and a couple curbs waxed up. Re-learned how to nollie lipslide the parking block. Also after a few months of doing bs slappies on small curbs, I discovered I can do them on a full sized curb. Finished with a bunch of long 50-50s 180 out. Fun!
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Driveway with a box, routine tricks windy and cold, as I was finishing up I tried a switch bs180 nosegrind and landed it
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Concussion and broken big toe :-[
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think i went to a skatepark 2 months ago. i wanted to grind the contest rail for old times sake but ended up doing some tricks to manny on a portable metal flatbar next to manny pad. thoguht about stealing it cause i'm sure someone will, why shouldn't i take it?
but as a catholic, i can't do it.
hopefully it's still there.
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Was at a sam's club parking lot a few days ago and it's closed permanently.
So there's a few good slappy curbs was hitting them up heard then saw some randoms skating the other side of the parking lot they brought their boxes and ramps full on session likes demo.
Honestly I never in my life would I have seen this especially in my area.
One because this place sucks
Two the scene here is like a watered down supreme clique
Three my neighborhood is hood as fuck NO ONE SKATES here unless it's longboarding.
It was a good session slammed a few times as they had a stupid box that was over waxed it wasn't safe at all.
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Cold winter night. Make fire by moonlight. Howl with wolf. Wolf family. My family.
Make a tender moment- sweat under and freeze your eyelids shut.
Police make contact. I warrior. They know, I know. Sign says “no skateboarding”. Police say they
don’t care. I hear howling breath under people breath.
Make ancestors give strength to 5-0 on a little step. Gods not friendly and sleeping. Fear grip and hold “just how good is my health insurance?” “Why am I such a pussy?”
Play with dead bird carcass and kiss its rancid wings.
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I took my cruiser board out to just go around my neighborhood, fucked around on some things along the way. Stopped at a hill to a busy street where there's a 2 stair ledge thing towards the top I've always eyed but it has a gnarly crack before it, thought I could get over it easier with cruiser wheels. Came close but didn't land it. Also was kinda tough to time it with the light since I wanted to cross the street at the bottom without stopping.
Two other dudes were skating closer to the top of the hill and went to a ledge spot I hit the night before, they didn't have masks so I didn't say what up or anything but nodded at them.
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For ten minutes and by myself, I skated a ridiculously dusty, filthy parking garage that's full of rocks and melted snow and people coming in and out and a lingering security guard. Not only was my griptape full of dust, but I fell and my jacket and pants got dust on them.
But on the plus side, I came close to learning wallride 180s.
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Went to my winterspot. The only place I now with a roof over it. Super crusty, with those small cobblestones every 4 meters or so. I duct taped the whole place ( arround 50 meters of tape ) to smoothen out the cobblestones a bit.
I got two lill manual pads there and a wooden bank "ledge" i can use for slides.
Overall it's a pain in the ass to skate there but winter is hitting hard here. So it's the only dry place in town.
Somehow it's frustrating. But on the other hand it's also the only way to keep me sane with all of the covid madness right now. I always skate alone there because no one wants to skate that spot. Cops are also a problem there, they kicked me out on friday. So I came back on saturday to slip out on a half cap noseslide and fucking up my shoulder. Went to MRT on Monday and it seems like i need operation now.. so overall a great session..
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got so close to landing 360 flips for like 2 hours, came back and immediately felt so sore and now my ankle is probably gonna be on ice for the next week
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Cycled 30/40 minutes to a skatepark outside the city, upon arrival I could only see little kids with scooters and families on top of the ramps.
Moved to a different skatepark, and 10 minutes into the session, got a sharkbite on the instep of my foot.
Smoked 2 joints and painfully cycled back home.
Life is beautiful.
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how long is a usual sesh for u dudes?
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Skated my local for a couple of hours on Saturday. I'm in the process of relearning kickflips and tailslides, but I try to limit how many kickflips I do so I don't get frustrated (finally figured out what to do by the end of the evening). Did my usual stuff and one of my friends brought his girlfriend and she was learning to skate on his board. He and I get to trying a noseslide on the 2-stair Euro hubba and I'm not even getting close, but I also just need to muster up the courage to try and fall a few times. After they left I practiced slappy noseslides and popped into some tailslides on the bottom stair in the street section before I left. Overall, not a bad day.
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went to a local DIY to film for a little video were making there and tons of sticks all around from the crew but no makes. filmed for about 2 hours in the freezing cold. it was still very chill no pun intended
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getting kicked out by two security guys at the newest spot before even putting down all four wheels, going to a park that's packed with kids and parents without any masks during peak covid and mandatory ffp2 mask in stores and parking lots, ending up skating a dry patch of asphalt next to a construction site. get three shinners on the same spot and be fed up and go home.
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how long is a usual sesh for u dudes?
i try skate around 1.5hrs, mostly ledges and flat
yesterday i got out of full day of classes right around sunset. Pushed as fast as I could to the ledge spot, tried to get all my go-tos as fast as i could, and then the sun set and i went home.
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how long is a usual sesh for u dudes?
usually 4 hours or longer when its decent out
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how long is a usual sesh for u dudes?
I tend to do 2/3 1 hour sessions during the week, mainly in my lunchbreak and a full day during the weekend.
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how long is a usual sesh for u dudes?
I try to make it an all day affair if the wife and have nothing planned but usually 1 to 2 hours.
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Skated a tiny park couple towns over. Tried to evade all the weekend scooter kids. Despite the pandemic, there seems to be more than ever, especially with their ignorant parents... but the park was covered in mud and dirt from.. you guessed it, scooter kids. Managed to land a heelfip off the kicker and my friend caught the still on his phone:
https://i.imgur.com/rpcmVWx.jpg
Then we went back to the local after about an hour to sesh the ledge... my mate relearned impossible 50-50s and front tails on it, so all round a good couple hours.
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that’s such a trippy park, is it just a long hallway in a field? i would love to skate that
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So there’s this round rail spot that I went to with some friends 7 years ago and I’ve been wanting to go again.
So after work this last Sunday I head there and my friend is coming to meet up and when he gets there he says he saw another rail a couple minutes down the road.
And the first rail ended up having a shift in the concrete which made the flat rail have an upward angle at the end, I tried boardsliding a couple times and just kept sticking when it angled up.
So we leave that spot for the other one my friend saw and we get there and I realized I had also been to that one 7 years ago with those friends.
The second spot had a rail that also had an upward shift and a second rail that was lower but close to a wall.
So I did a few front boards on the rail by the wall.
And I started trying to back board the main rail.
My friend took out his tape measure and that rail started at 15 inches high and ended at 19 inches high and was 25 feet long.
So i start trying to back board the long rail and I did it surprisingly quick like in 10 tries.
But I wanted to try for a better one and then I slammed pretty hard and kept trying at least 20 more times and didn’t land it a second time.
Pretty surprised I was able to back board that thing.
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Skated a tiny park couple towns over. Tried to evade all the weekend scooter kids. Despite the pandemic, there seems to be more than ever, especially with their ignorant parents... but the park was covered in mud and dirt from.. you guessed it, scooter kids. Managed to land a heelfip off the kicker and my friend caught the still on his phone:
https://i.imgur.com/rpcmVWx.jpg
Then we went back to the local after about an hour to sesh the ledge... my mate relearned impossible 50-50s and front tails on it, so all round a good couple hours.
man, where i grew up in super rural germany all the village parks looked like this. kickers leading straight into mud and shit. can't say i miss any of them. respect to you for dealing with this. that kicker looks wild, did you have to ollie up? good heelflip steez.
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how long is a usual sesh for u dudes?
Depends on what we’re skating, if we’re parking hoping it’s usually about 2-3 hours but if it’s curbs and low impact shit well be at it for hours. But generally speaking I can only really skate on the weekends these days.
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Hit my local city sponsored DIY park for the first time in awhile, after some snowy weather. Surprised myself by feeling really good on my board and started trying krooked grinds on flat box, something I had started trying to learn on my last session. I jumped onto a couple really well but going too slow to actually grind, and decided to actually commit with some speed. First try with speed my front wheels landed on top of the ledge and I shot out, going full horizontal, and slammed full force strait down onto my tailbone. First full body rocker I'd taken in a long time. Anyway, it was a session ender, and after I left I was walking around and the swelling started to pinch a nerve and send pain all the way down my leg making me freak out and think I was seriously fucked up, but the next day I woke up and it was just a bit sore. Very excited to skate again once this latest snow clears out.
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that’s such a trippy park, is it just a long hallway in a field? i would love to skate that
yup, that's the whole park. where the picture is taken from is on top of a quarter pipe at one end.
did you have to ollie up?
nah that ramp goes all the way to the floor. you can also do cool roll on grinds all the way along it.
Pretty surprised I was able to back board that thing.
I saw the clips in your story, that rail looks really nice but you were saying it's super hard to skate.
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that’s such a trippy park, is it just a long hallway in a field? i would love to skate that
yup, that's the whole park. where the picture is taken from is on top of a quarter pipe at one end.
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did you have to ollie up?
nah that ramp goes all the way to the floor. you can also do cool roll on grinds all the way along it.
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Pretty surprised I was able to back board that thing.
I saw the clips in your story, that rail looks really nice but you were saying it's super hard to skate.
I wouldn’t say super hard but just not really ideal or perfect the way a park rail would be
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Recently went out for the first time after being stuck at home for a couple weeks, went to the local college and skated the curbs for a couple of hours to shake some of the rust off. Kept slipping out on my hurricane grinds and couldn't roll away from one to save my life, but left the spot overall happy just to be back on the board :)
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Bump because I had to tell ya all about my beautiful day.
Met with the homies at a kicker spot. Broke my board the 2nd try I ollied. Went to Rewe to get a banana. Homie gave me his old deck. Screwed it on and tried a wallie.
After 10 tries I felt comfy and ready to land the trick.
Landed it, but my front foot came sideways and I tweaked the hell out of my ankle. I think if I haven't worn a ankle brace, my ankle would be broken now. I am sad.
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Sorry to hear about your ankle fs1/2cab.
I had a week off work so I skated 7 out of the 8 last days. As my back foot ankle is healing and I was also breaking in new shoes, I went softly tho. I had some okayish sessions but nothing outstanding. However, I got a clip of a half decent fs noseslide to fakie today, so that's cool. By now, my legs are black and blue and my hand hurts because I fell on it often so it's good I don't have two weeks off. ;D
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Sorry to hear about your ankle fs1/2cab.
I had a week off work so I skated 7 out of the 8 last days. As my back foot ankle is healing and I was also breaking in new shoes, I went softly tho. I had some okayish sessions but nothing outstanding. However, I got a clip of a half decent fs noseslide to fakie today, so that's cool. By now, my legs are black and blue and my hand hurts because I fell on it often so it's good I don't have two weeks off. ;D
Thank you a lot mate.
Woah, you can go skating every day. I am not sure my body can handle that anymore. But very nice to hear. It is very hard for me to take the sessions easy and lightly, because I like to give my best and push myself. The last few months were crazy, I filmed so many clips and a few of them I am proud of ya know. But now, I gotta take it very easy and recover my ankle. Which already fucks with my mental health.
Fs noseslides to fakie are also on my list, but I need the right ledge to learn them.
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Smoked a cig after 15 minutes skating and had to go home to take a shit
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Sorry to hear about your ankle fs1/2cab.
I had a week off work so I skated 7 out of the 8 last days. As my back foot ankle is healing and I was also breaking in new shoes, I went softly tho. I had some okayish sessions but nothing outstanding. However, I got a clip of a half decent fs noseslide to fakie today, so that's cool. By now, my legs are black and blue and my hand hurts because I fell on it often so it's good I don't have two weeks off. ;D
Thank you a lot mate.
Woah, you can go skating every day. I am not sure my body can handle that anymore. But very nice to hear. It is very hard for me to take the sessions easy and lightly, because I like to give my best and push myself. The last few months were crazy, I filmed so many clips and a few of them I am proud of ya know. But now, I gotta take it very easy and recover my ankle. Which already fucks with my mental health.
Fs noseslides to fakie are also on my list, but I need the right ledge to learn them.
I wasn't skating all day long, just an hour or two but yeah, I was also surprised my old body played along.
I simply tried to do stuff where I was less likely to bend/roll my back foot ankle, that's why the fs noseslide was perfect, as literally all you use is the front foot so the risk to roll the back foot is quite limited. I find the ideal ledge height is around knee high and not too slippery.
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I went to the parking lot at the community pool around 830. I was pretty smoked because I drove 15hrs straight the day before but wanted to get an hour or so in because I'm not going to be able to skate for a week or so. I get to the parking lot and just starting slappying some curbs and parking blocks. I'm on the tail end of a nasty ankle injury recovery that had me down all winter but my ankle is getting stronger and I wanted to practice my Ollie's instead of 4 trick lines. So I pull a tall milk crate outta the back of my car, lay it down sideways and start popping over it pretty easily. I stand it it on its end, making it just around 2ft tall, couple inches under. Try popping over it and crash the crate. I get over it 3rd try and go back to try it again with a clean roll away (the benefits and downfalls of self filming w a phone). Well, my legs are done at this point and 2x I essentially just dump into the crate and almost eat crap. I pick up the sled and tomahawk that shit into the crate gone askew. Tore a significant section of tape off. Haven't had a temper tantrum in a minute. Felt good and childish. It was funny to watch on video
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I went to the parking lot at the community pool around 830. I was pretty smoked because I drove 15hrs straight the day before but wanted to get an hour or so in because I'm not going to be able to skate for a week or so. I get to the parking lot and just starting slappying some curbs and parking blocks. I'm on the tail end of a nasty ankle injury recovery that had me down all winter but my ankle is getting stronger and I wanted to practice my Ollie's instead of 4 trick lines. So I pull a tall milk crate outta the back of my car, lay it down sideways and start popping over it pretty easily. I stand it it on its end, making it just around 2ft tall, couple inches under. Try popping over it and crash the crate. I get over it 3rd try and go back to try it again with a clean roll away (the benefits and downfalls of self filming w a phone). Well, my legs are done at this point and 2x I essentially just dump into the crate and almost eat crap. I pick up the sled and tomahawk that shit into the crate gone askew. Tore a significant section of tape off. Haven't had a temper tantrum in a minute. Felt good and childish. It was funny to watch on video
I usually get so bummed and uncomfortable when my friends or people around me get mad while skating, but boy do I turn into Mr. Hyde when I'm skating on my own. Never focused a board, but definitely throw/push my board into things. Almost always immediately regret it but it's a release.
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I skated an underground spot last week with some friends last week. It’s been raining for the past 2 weeks straight, so we took the box and flat bar to a covered spot. I didn’t do much but spend me whole sessions trying to relearn front crooks. I got 8 or 10 but but only pinched a few.
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Been going to this new perfect skatepark for a couple years now and never had to courage to skate the double set there (it’s not that big, just minimal roll up and awkward roll away). The other day I ollied it 2nd try, stuck a first try kickflip, and rolled away on the 4th try. Was stoked to say the least. Also did an ollie to manual up a ledge that was waist high, tried to film it and kept clipping my back trucks which annoyed me. Still a great session though
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Blew my back out again on the first trick of the session, a nollie bs 180 on flatground.
I keep blowing my back out skating, I think that might be it for me.
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Got a proper, un-rocketed kickflip last session. Been playing with my feet setup and figured it out. Now I have five days off in a row and it’s been raining for two with zero covered spots to hit, so I will be making room in my tiny garage today.
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there were around 400 skaters at my local spot yesterday
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went to my local. learned better fakie noseslides back to fakie. idk if thats what its called but whatever. felt good. skated with a homie. had some laughs. didnt eat shit. overall good session.
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Smoked a cig after 15 minutes skating and had to go home to take a shit
a classic.
last sesh i had i stopped by this new park in tampa (carrollwood village park) and was pleasantly surprised to find that its one of the best parks i’ve ever been to in florida. it’s small but thoughtfully designed and every obstacle flows into another perfectly. all the coping is majestic and there was hardly anyone at the park so i got to skate fast and enjoy it in its entirety.
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Mostly, I just threw myself at the ground & managed to pick up a few grinds in whilst in the process.
Prolly got as many bruises, all tallied, as successful tricks.
Meh.
I’d call it a great day.
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Brought my box to the high school lot by my house and just did my thang. I don’t skate the box often but when I do I’m instantly back to being 15 skating a box out in front of my friends house everyday after school
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Almost slammed down a hill. Told my wife I was working downstairs but really was drinking and watching "Mouse"
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Went to a skatepark that's near a river to skate with a friend, was cold and windy so we bought beer and chill in the sun next to the water until we felt warmed enough. Did a couple long manuals, then went to his house to talk about barza trips and watch dani lebron and Macba crews videos.
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I went to the parking lot at the community pool around 830. I was pretty smoked because I drove 15hrs straight the day before but wanted to get an hour or so in because I'm not going to be able to skate for a week or so. I get to the parking lot and just starting slappying some curbs and parking blocks. I'm on the tail end of a nasty ankle injury recovery that had me down all winter but my ankle is getting stronger and I wanted to practice my Ollie's instead of 4 trick lines. So I pull a tall milk crate outta the back of my car, lay it down sideways and start popping over it pretty easily. I stand it it on its end, making it just around 2ft tall, couple inches under. Try popping over it and crash the crate. I get over it 3rd try and go back to try it again with a clean roll away (the benefits and downfalls of self filming w a phone). Well, my legs are done at this point and 2x I essentially just dump into the crate and almost eat crap. I pick up the sled and tomahawk that shit into the crate gone askew. Tore a significant section of tape off. Haven't had a temper tantrum in a minute. Felt good and childish. It was funny to watch on video
I usually get so bummed and uncomfortable when my friends or people around me get mad while skating, but boy do I turn into Mr. Hyde when I'm skating on my own. Never focused a board, but definitely throw/push my board into things. Almost always immediately regret it but it's a release.
I very rarely go ballistic with anything, let alone a skateboard these days, but sometimes tossing the board like a helicopter into a corner feels right ::)
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2 weeks ago i slammed trying to kickflip over 2 boards stacked up
i hadnt done any warm up on kickflips really i was trying to switch ollie it for awhile and i just wasnt getting it
for some reason decided to try to kickflip it
i have pretty decent kickflips as far as consistency + catch, but they are not that high maybe just 1 deck high on average. so it felt like i was going pretty high just kickflipping this 2 decks and normally my first tries are trash and the board doesnt come with me at all or anything i just kinda jump away
the first try it popped up seemingly perfect and i really committed to it. i thought i was getting it first try. since i am not used to kickflipping so high, i didnt account for the extra air time, so the board flipped too quickly and i ended up landing on it upside and rolling my ankle super super badly.
luckily i walked away + was able to drive home but was not able to walk the next day :(
have tried to take care of it the best i can the past 2 weeks and finally got to skate yesterday a tiny bit and felt amazing :) got fakie blindside heel and half cab flip super nice in the accels. just felt super happy to be rolling around again and it wasnt painful at all.
wasnt feeling the cup soles at first coming from the Foy 306s but i am actually getting used to skating these es again. i mean considering they are a budget shoe i suppose they are worth the price (these were $68 CAD) but i dont know if i will buy them again. I just bought new Tyshawn shoe from Adidas. it almost feels too nice to skate in :s
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Saturday session with my 3 year old son. I smithgrinded the bank to ledge, he rolled down the bank sitting on his board.
Then a fire broke out in a building around the corner, the fire brigade trucks passing by had my son all hyped.
Stopped for ice cream on the way home. BBQ for dinner.
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stuck a first try kickflip, and rolled away on the 4th try.
This one still confuses me every time I hear it. “Stuck” used to mean you landed whatever you were trying, not landed on it and fell off. But sometime in the last 20 years it started to get used by the younger generation in the context you used it. Congrats, though!
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I haven’t been going to any parks lately. Went to the closest parking lot and spent an hour trying a few lines. I put off learning no comply 180s for the longest time since it seemed like such a dork trick but now that I have them down I kinda like them.
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Got winded playing a game of skate. Had to lay down.
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Went to my covid curb for first time in a month or so. It's been fairly stressful lately w/ work, family, etc.
Had to pretty much force myself to go. Changed out to an old board at the spot and ended up having a really fun curb session. Got some slappies, played around w/ my limited flatground tricks and bunted a couple maybe for the futures.
Changed my whole vibe.
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I had the day off yesterday so after I picked my son up from school we went to my local.
There was only two other people there, a 20 year old guy and a girl he was teaching to skate.
I was cruising around warming up (which takes like 30 min for me) and he started complimenting me on my no complies, which turned into us talking about pressure flips. For a youngin, I could tell he was really into skating. He wasn't amazing good or anything, but you could tell in the next few years he would get very good if he stuck at it.
He even gave me props on my sub-par ledge tricks... so again I could see that he was just pumped on being out there and rolling with other people, I think that’s a great quality to have, and certainly not one that I would have been able cultivate at 20 of some old dad rocked up to a skate session and starting doing archaic tricks.
I had some new shoes I was trying to break in (and ultimately decide if I want to keep) and while they aren't terrible to skate in, I kinda don't like looking down at them so I changed back into my old beat up shoes.
Didn't do anything amazing, but had most of my tricks on lock! My 6 year old was pumping over on the mini ramp which got me stoked because it's a hard mini to skate! My son then went and taught the girl who was learning to skate how to pop up on the manual pad without ollieing.
Finished the session up on my Polar Shin board with loopholes just cruising fast and doing power slides all over the place. Nothing too gnar, but enough to keep this old man stoked!!!
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I was the only one at the park and two women showed up to do lifestyle shoots in the mini. After a few minutes I asked them if they skate. One said, “Yea, but I didn’t bring my board.” I offered her mine. She declined and I let them be.
They go back to their car and ten minutes later it looks like one is filming me. I walk in front of their car, then around, and back into the park. They left immediately after.
Alone again, as seems to be the common theme of my life, I’m trying to string a line together. This car rolls up and a dude and his daughter get out with a RC car.
I fucked up the trick and realize they posted up exactly where I was setting up. I got frustrated, threw my board at the ground - like any adult with good communication skills does - and kept skating.
They end up partying elsewhere with the very fast toy and four other skaters show up. One wearing a shirt telling me to “Download Fun”, two adolescents enjoying the spring night, and a local homie.
All’s well that ends well, except now I may not be anonymous anymore.
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my local is situated on the side of a mountain.. .there is a little stream behind the park with frogs and freshwater crabs in it... so i went with my kids and all the other kids at the park to catch crabs and frogs after that i had a quick flat bar session and I committed to learning bigspin front boards finally... i can't bigspin on flat to save my life but I figured out how to pop them into front boards (cause you don't have to rotate all the way round... its kind of cheating)
did one in a line... now just need to slide them longer and faster
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My front truck hanger fell off when I was coming back into the quarter pipe. It was a beautiful slam. I got up wide eyed.
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Smoked a lot of pot today because my wife and the kids are at the beach while I’m working. After work I proceeded to skate for over 7 miles. Probably a record for me and I’m sure I’m gonna be feeling it tomorrow.
Setup:
Dane 1
169
54 mm succulent dreams 92a
Cleaned and greased my bones Reds today. Used Panasonic razor oil (out of speed cream) and I think it might rival bones.
Some new stuff got waxed Which is always a treat.
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Yesterday. Set up a new deck and wheels, went skating with a good friend who's moving 11 hours away from here soon, so let him choose the spots. Started at a park in the city, my flip game definitely off with the bigger wheels, but my nollies were popping high so spent a lot of time just speeding around nollie-ing up, off, into everything in sight. Got frustrated i couldn't bs flip up the euro, but did some really satisfying slappy crooks, bs and fs, probably my longest and fastest fs to fakie.
The park was cold and windy so headed to a nearby ledge that is in the sun. Was there 3min, popped a bs bigspin on flat, overbalanced and stepped off backwards, rolling my ankle, and writhed on the footpath in pain for a good 5min. It's pretty painful today, won't be back on the board for a few weeks. Feel old.
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i get to basketball court at the end of my quiet suburban neighborhood that I skate pretty much daily after work.
within 5 minutes some basketball players show up, which is fine take half the court
They start playing on my side of the court without asking, then tell me to leave because they want to play full court. I tell them I don't want to accidentally hit their cars and stuff bc its a small street. This one guy says "If you hit my car I'll fuck you up" and I'm not about to get punked by some old ass white guy so I tell him I'll fuck him up back. This younger guy calms down a little after, I land the shit i want to land and then I go home. Walking away I still felt like a bitch tho.
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Me and my homies went out to Lake elsinore to skate that new mcvickers park. Had a pretty good sesh, then started filming some of my homies. One of em got a backside flip over the a frame. Super sick to watch and to get the clip
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brick rubbed and coated a curb outside our house shit was butter and I got some good frontside slappies for the first time since my ACL surgery four months ago
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Took my nephew on his first trip to the skatepark. We pushed around for a bit and had a great time. After that I called the filmer to see if he was out in the streets. He was. I showed up to the spot and waited for them to show. Watched Jimmy Lannon try a trick for over an hour while i half heartedly tried to do some unfilmables in the corner. Broke my board. Then I had to take a shit so I just went home. Filmer hit me up later to let me know Jimmy got the clip. Set up a new board and its been in my trunk for two weeks unused.
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Stomped a kickflip all like:
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Stomped a kickflip all like:
(https://i.ibb.co/QMDB204/jlgif13.gif) (https://imgbb.com/)
One of my favorite posters already :D
My local spot is pretty funny looking, its this long patch of concrete with blocks of stairs all around and a giant concrete obstacle in the middle thats been sculpted by what must be millions of grinds by now. Its basically on this sort of platform above the river that goes through the city and there's a giant barge literally next to the spot, so you can have a nice sesh and then walk 20 meters up the bridge to the floating bar/restaurant for a cold beer. Anyway I get there and set down and there's like a group of 30 longboarders hanging on one side, and a bunch of rollerblading pals and gals next to them, which means me and the 4 other skaters there have a somewhat limited space to skate.
There's a moderately sized gap at one end that I keep trying to ollie 180, i've been trying to boost em more and more but i keep failing and there's like 45 people in there zooming around me which throws my focus off, I keep thinking i'm gonna body a poor girl trying to learn longboarding. Finally land it and I light a cig waiting for the longboarders to move off the spot and eventually they leave.
And then out of nowhere this random dude jumps in the river and starts swimming in the middle of the barge and the platform we're on. Totally random, not to mention that river is really dirty and has extremly stong currents, police often find bodies of people who fell in and drowned. The bar staff yells at him to get back up on the fucking platform and that the water is dirty, that its dangerous, yada yada. This went on for 15 minutes lol. Eventually the dude's girlfriend screams at his ass to get back up, he does and she storms off, him running after her with his brown stained shorts and barefoot. Me and the skaters there were laughing our asses of it was such a bizarre thing to witness.
Went back to skating and practicing kickflips and a bit of progress there so a nice little session sprinkled with randomness, very nice
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It sucked and was great at the same time. Haven't really skated in awhile (pooched knee/weather/covid/old...all the damn excuses) but found a park near a job site I have to drive about an hour to. So after working a few hours in PPE that had me drenched in sweat I went over and flopped around trying to manual the little pad while three young guys were landing stuff. I couldnt do much of anything but they still clapped/tapped their decks when I did. Just nice to be around skaters, talk about random stuff and see stuff being landed - mentally kind of a reset to get off my ass more.
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Cold winter night. Make fire by moonlight. Howl with wolf. Wolf family. My family.
Make a tender moment- sweat under and freeze your eyelids shut.
Police make contact. I warrior. They know, I know. Sign says “no skateboarding”. Police say they
don’t care. I hear howling breath under people breath.
Make ancestors give strength to 5-0 on a little step. Gods not friendly and sleeping. Fear grip and hold “just how good is my health insurance?” “Why am I such a pussy?”
Play with dead bird carcass and kiss its rancid wings.
Grug think stupid red sign mean nothing, grug think you strong tribe man for mocking sign, gods maybe too much sleep after apple juice drink?
Grug also think playing with dead bird weird, grug think you need seek brain chaman to beat head voice with big word club.
Peace on grug
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went to the usual and did my usuals
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Spent wayyyy to long trying fakie boardslide revert back noseblunt to fakie on a curved ledge
Sounds dumb and that’s because it is but it’s a fun way to dismount a fakie boardslide and if I can get the nose to slide a little on the way out it might look kinda cool??? Definitely feelz cool
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It was announced that schools would not reopen this year, so I yelled “yay!” and skated the schoolyard curbs all afternoon.
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Got to skate that lot 11 park in Miami with my brother while visiting some family. That place is incredible. Love the homages to the hebrew rail, those little steep quarter pipes that dill had a few clips on in skate more and the triangle memorial thing. Vibes were great and there was some old head there skating better than anyone i've ever seen his age. Great day.
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Third time back out after a few weeks off for an ankle roll, was feeling pretty good, mostly pain free and got a few flip tricks down.
Pure flatground as usual, landed 3 nice kickflips in a row and should have called time with that, as I had been out for a while... sun was shining so i wound things down and was just tossing a few random tricks around, decided on a whim to try fakie bigspin heels, and the third one I threw I really tweaked out my ankle with the flip motion, weird as i had been doing heels the last couple days no bother.
So yeah, that was two weeks ago, I should have finished on a make and left the session there, as my ankle is still bitching me out now. I'm usually pretty sensible coming back from injuries, but just had to push my luck that little bit too far... typical!
I love how ankle roll recovery never seems to be straightforward, it'll feel good and improve in a fairly linear fashion, then just start being a dick again... genuinely thought i was in the clear.
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The year was 2011. It was a beautiful Sunday morning. I didn’t have to go to my dishwashing job so I sparked a bowl and cracked a beer. I put on Happy Medium II in my iTunes video player, for probably the 30th time, while I got dressed in my favourite tiedye t-shirt, cutoff corduroy shorts, shoe lace belt, and Lakai Koston Selects. It was a bit nippy out, so I threw on my burgundy beanie as well. Once I was ready to go, I turned up the Dan Deacon on my knockoff iPod shuffle and was out the door.
I made my way to the skatepark, manualing sidewalk blocks on the way, and when I got there I started working on my nollie bs bigspins. After several attempts I floated a perfect one off the kicker by the bowl and landed bolts, while the emo kids on the bleachers watched with indifference. It was a good day.
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I do flats around the hood every night, 20-40 minutes, just pushing around, trying to improve my ollie, and slapping curbs as I see fit. Pretty stoked to have jumped off a 6” ledge my last two times out. I’ve been back on the board for 6 weeks or so and I’m just trying to have some fun.
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there was children in the way, I did a manual trick
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Learned half cab nosegrind reverts and had free pizza.
Tidy.
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alone at my lunch break on a plaza close to my work, did one of the best heelflips I ever done
my foot position must feel akward and weird in order to make it
22 years since I started skating and I'ts my least consistent trick, so Im happy
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Tired a trick like 40 times last night on a ledge. Getting close but no go. Then on my 'last try' shout, landed it perfectly. Great way to end the session. I obv tried to repeat it immediately after landing it only to fail again. hehe. (noseslide to krook fakie out)
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Played skate in my driveway last night with a friend.
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Was at a skatepark with the homie and met some guy that always pushed mongo, both regular and switch.
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Hiked up 3000 ft / 914m for a couple miles / a few kilometers to skate a spot I came across a few years ago. It's elevation was a bit above 9000ft / 2643m.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPrfI2qldo8/
Slipped on a rock at the top, gashed my leg, fell a couple times while skating, got my trick, had to hike back down with a bloody leg, but it was well worth it.
Ended up at a fire road which turned into a steep sandy asphalt neighborhood road, which meant powerslides were never ending (aka they don't slow you down). Slammed again which led to more blood.
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Hiked up 3000 ft / 914m for a couple miles / a few kilometers to skate a spot I came across a few years ago. It's elevation was a bit above 9000ft / 2643m.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPrfI2qldo8/
Slipped on a rock at the top, gashed my leg, fell a couple times while skating, got my trick, had to hike back down with a bloody leg, but it was well worth it.
Ended up at a fire road which turned into a steep sandy asphalt neighborhood road, which meant powerslides were never ending (aka they don't slow you down). Slammed again which led to more blood.
Now that's what I call an amazing skate photo. 8)
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So yesterday was GSD so all the homies called out from work to sesh. We purposely didn’t go to a park because we hate that shit. We linked up at a plaza and made a new ledge skateable instead. Anyway so we get to point where we are filming 3 homies going for their tricks and some fucking random pulls their car over mad fast and hopps out with a board, mallgrabbed. He kept snaking us in the street while we were filming. Then he asked, “are y’all going downtown for all the go skate day events?”
And we were like “fuck no, that’s why we’re here”. Then the kid tried fs 50 on the smallest ledge fruitlessly for 10 mins and dipped out.
Later on in the day, my homie was looking through Instagram stories from the fools downtown and every year Denver’s gsd ends at the infamous Emage 20 set handrail. Long story, short we all watched the same kid rack the fuck outa his nuts tryna lip slide a 20 in front of most of Denver’s skate scene when he couldn’t even 50 a ledge. They had to carry him away.
Moral of the story: know your limits, don’t be a show of.
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Was at a skatepark with the homie and met some guy that always pushed mongo, both regular and switch.
That's funny. I lived in San Diego for awhile in a house with a guy I went to college with. He was a really good surfer who just picked up long boarding. I am Ok at skating, 15+ years in the game. He acually asked me that he wanted to learn how to push with his front foot. I never had anyone ask me how to push mongo.
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I changed my skate style so that I'm sweating right away instead of chillin around. I may's well get a work out while I skate. Lots of pushing and bowl pumpin. I'm working on a fly out to deck check for the post yourself. Rockin the blue mini cubic wheels.
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I'm 37 and my sessions are quite brief nowadays. If I have a trick in mind I try it and if I land it properly, that's it, back to jumping rope and watching the lads from afar having fun. If I'm completely alone, say, 6:30 a.m. I'll skate for 3 hours and try new things until I'm beaten up and bleeding. Hope to keep skating until I'm 55 or something.
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Skating the town I grew up in and hitting some old spots. Kinda nuts to see that there is NO ONE skating street in this city at all. Brand new park with granite blocks and no stoppers. No one has waxed them. Shits weird. The old ledges around town and shit haven't been waxed in at least 10yrs. So I skated some small ass gaps at the new county courthouse, ollieing til i was too tired to walk. Figure if I get comfortable with small ones I might be able to move up a bit again and all that. Realized that the only difference between a foot high drop and a 5 foot drop is about 1 second time and a lot more pain if you bail. Focus and breathe grasshoppa!
Anyways, it was the first time I skated since my 36 bday last week and it was really fun to skate a metal cellar door for an hour. Start in parking lot, Ollie up curb 1 push, pop onto cellar door because there is an inch high lip and either pivot or roll back switch. Back when, i used to have my heel flips, shove its, and fs 180s on this spot but since this was my first time skating a cellar door or any bank in close to 10 years so the up and down was rewarding enough. Got a lil accidental switch nose grind on one of the tries. Ive got 3 more days/nights before I leave and want to land/film a 180 on it.
Also drove to this parking garage where we used to get faded and skate. All the wax has worn off every ledge but the Manny pads were alright. Back then I used to think these gaps were small as fuck, like 6 inches up 4feet over 2feet down. I had my bag of tricks up and over from both angles (6in up and over as well as 2ft up and over). Now im blown away how easy it used to be!!! I can still Ollie up that gap (2ft up) but can't clear the four feet and whatnot. In always looked down on myself as a skater when i was coming up because I wasn't a total beast like some of the dudes I skated with, but now that I'm looking at the shit I had to skate and recalling what I landed, its like "damn, you weren't bad at all!" Its cool having this fresh outlook on it. Its making me realize that now that I'm healthy, fit, and not getting messed up that I will only keep skating better and having more fun!!!
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shelby was killing it. as usual. not the fastest but highly refined. then rocky with the backup kinda spazzin across the street
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Got to get his off my chest brehs.
I had another bad kick flip day today and was struggling getting a few half assed ones. I was alone at the spot but then this guy turned up who was already there last time. He's super nice but it's frustrating, he came back to skating after a 15 year hiatus three months ago and is already popping nice kick flips and heel flips every try, plus has 360 flips and some other flip tricks pretty much on lock. So he comes over and asks me if those are switch flips I am trying. He was not meaning to mock me but it did not sit well...
Thanks for reading.
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My last skate day was about 2 months ago. I went to the park in the morning because I knew it would be empty. I did a few back smith grinds and I left. Only because I had an ingrown toenail. Had it removed almost a month ago and still in the process of recovery. But I enjoyed my last session even though I was in so much pain.
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I mostly stick to the mini at my local park. I’m trying to get my pop going a little bit and have been dealing with “the fear” after a mtb crash a couple weeks ago. I’ve made a rule for myself that I have to ollie onto the flat before I can skate the mini. It’s both sad and funny what a battle it has been.
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65% chilling. i usually try to do 40% sitting/talking shit maximum but idk it was one of those fred durst days. shelby wasnt even around
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Was feeling really down on myself, thinking maybe it’s time to hang it up but then I learned fakie 360 shoves up this box so maybe I’ll keep going.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQesIrPHkPH/?utm_medium=copy_link
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3 days ago, my 33rd birthday. I have a friend that I skate with who had the same birthday, same year too.
He invited me to go skate in a parking lot with some of his friends that I don’t know. They brought a box and 2 flat bars.
It was fun. We played like a 6 person game of skate, I got a letter on everyone with a 3 shuv and another letter on 4/6 people with a shuv rewind. I was the second person out of the game tho.
I almost landed a nollie heel for the first time on my E. My second try the board flipped 3/4 and I hit promo, it would have been bolts.
I was trying front board shuv on a flatbar with my phone on a tripod. Them my birthday friend filmed a line and he started filming me, he showed me how his angle looked and said, check this out it’s gonna look super good. And he said, “you should do the shuv rewind after you land the trick”. I had planned on just doing a front shuv but I was like, good idea. I landed the fromt board shuv ad perfect as I possibly could have, with good speed too and made the shuv rewind.
It was a fun sesh.
That clip is in the “post you skating” thread.
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friggin hot today. and im already a sweaty fucker who soaks through shirts fast. didnt feel like filling up a jug so ended up going through 3 bottles of water. near the end i was just sitting then fatherless george starts screaming at the top of his lungs at another grom. kid is probably not even 10 and hes screaming you fucking bitch! you fucking bitch i didnt do it! lmao. slow summer so far. i just hate the little bastard
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went out to the spot and there were some 16 year old kids messing around and I said "what up. you got these kickflips, dude. just land it" and the kid lands it :o
so, when I'm skating mostly alone, which is most of the time, I've got one headphone in my left ear (because my right ear is thrashed) and listen to something choice. I've realized that I like to pick one track and keep it on repeat for most of the session. it enables me to lock into a rhythm. Lately it's been Omegah Red- MF Doom x RZA- Books of War. I did that and some Beatles "A Day in the Life." My body was tired but once I began warming up, I moved beyond being held up by the switch from a 14.25WB to 14.5 and start popping around. Hit a moment where, once I reminded myself to actively breathe (funny for a yoga/meditation instructor to forget to breathe) I started landing everything. Duh. happens.every.time. Was pretty stoked on 2 lines with slappy board slide on a long curved double sided curb in the end. Got my 5.0s back. Maybe, just maybe, I've got the early understanding of front blunts and back tails. I don't know, but it was pretty rewarding and relaxing.
I need to throw a few old decks in my car to give to those kids. they're skating some ooooold ass shop decks.
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5050s and manuals at a park. 5050s and manuals at a parking garage. Kickflips and a back 180s somewhere in there.
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I found uh nickel.
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usually sk8 in the evenings when its not as hot. but the past couple days i havent done shit and today was the 1st of the month so i went to the spot after lunch. as soon as the elevator door opened it was clear someone had just ripped ass and left a rank one. oof let it close without entering and waited for it to go back to ground floor but its not moving. i hear the other elevator pass without stopping so i said fkit and held my breath to ground. shelby wasnt there because its not the evening and my laces broke. tested out my new trousers tho. kind of too skinny reminds me of swan or something i like a bit wider for comfort but its manageable. thanks for reading
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Worked on switch nollie fs smiths and slap bs feebles on a double sided curb. Landed none. Never flipped my board once. Pushed my 6 year old around on his board. Cops drove by and waved. Great time!
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Went to the local did a decked front rock and some old slash dog just talked me up for 30min about how sick front rocks are, then I went home.
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My friend bought a granite slab off someone on FB marketplace for like $50. Roughly 2'x6'. He took the old wood/metal surface off his old box and used construction adhesive to mounts the granite. Skated it for like 30 mins the other day because it was too hot out but booooooooooy did that thing feel amazing.
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saw a few locals i havent seen in a while. found like 5 or 6 grams of cabbage on the way back
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Was average, I always end with flatground...and this older dude who's like 44 I always see came up to me asking to play skate. He has an older shape with big wheels and big trucks. Long story short, we didn't end up actually playing skate...the end of my last session turned out to be one of the funnest sessions I've had, because instead of playing skate...we ended up going around the skatepark doing old school tricks, some of it I've never attempted... because he really doesn't pop his board anymore. I usually don't talk to anybody and stay to myself when I go to skateparks, but it was nice to actually skate with someone for once and in such an unconventional way (to me).
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Got a scorching eary afternoon Fourth of July session today. It was too hot even for the scooter kids and pile out teenagers so I pretty much had the park to myself. A cool younger kid was there who asked me for help with kickflips, and another homie I hadn’t seen in months was there too. Anyway, I managed some flat ground switch flips, tre flipped the small stairs first try, kickflipped the big set after a few tries, sketchy nollie heeled the euro. Did a good bs noseslide while threading the needle between a family. On the same ledge i landed in some bs lips and smiths but no land. Got 10/16 of the fs+bs flip trick variations on flat, was quite stoked. Wish I could’ve gotten one of those lipslides. This teenage drug dealer showed up to chill with the kid I helped, and it got awkward because we hate eachother. Left before I got sunburned. Could’ve went to another park, but it’s too hot, I’m gonna skate more tonight after work. Listened to “it was a good day” on the ride home
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Got 25% of my kickflips today (which is good for me) but they are mobbed. I have been working on a line for a few weeks now, got close, but no cigar.
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I torn my meniscus in my right leg last year and sprained my LCL 4 months ago in my left leg. Been off the board for a while until the 3rd of July. Went to the park to roll around and to my surprise i felt really good. Was able to Ollie our bump over barrier and it gave me the confidence Ive been missing for months. It felt great to skate with my friends that I haven’t seen in a while. My buddy pulled a switch bs flip on the pyramid and got his back with a switch fs heel. Good times, good people, and good legs :D
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I torn my meniscus in my right leg last year and sprained my LCL 4 months ago in my left leg. Been off the board for a while until the 3rd of July. Went to the park to roll around and to my surprise i felt really good. Was able to Ollie our bump over barrier and it gave me the confidence Ive been missing for months. It felt great to skate with my friends that I haven’t seen in a while. My buddy pulled a switch bs flip on the pyramid and got his back with a switch fs heel. Good times, good people, and good legs :D
Good shit, those knees are hard to feel confident in when you have ligament and meniscus issues. Did you get surgery for the meniscus?
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I torn my meniscus in my right leg last year and sprained my LCL 4 months ago in my left leg. Been off the board for a while until the 3rd of July. Went to the park to roll around and to my surprise i felt really good. Was able to Ollie our bump over barrier and it gave me the confidence Ive been missing for months. It felt great to skate with my friends that I haven’t seen in a while. My buddy pulled a switch bs flip on the pyramid and got his back with a switch fs heel. Good times, good people, and good legs :D
Good shit, those knees are hard to feel confident in when you have ligament and meniscus issues. Did you get surgery for the meniscus?
I didn’t get surgery, just been doing pt and eating better than usual. The time off the board really did me some good. Still going to take it easy but man it feels good to skate during the summer again
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Bs roll ins to fly out melon grab attempts. I just roll into the bowl and thats it usually. Maybe try a fly out or do a carve. I don't like attempting lip tricks. Mabye a fakie ollie disaster, they are pretty safe. When I say 'bowls' i mean 6 foot max. Anyway it was so fun.
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I torn my meniscus in my right leg last year and sprained my LCL 4 months ago in my left leg. Been off the board for a while until the 3rd of July. Went to the park to roll around and to my surprise i felt really good. Was able to Ollie our bump over barrier and it gave me the confidence Ive been missing for months. It felt great to skate with my friends that I haven’t seen in a while. My buddy pulled a switch bs flip on the pyramid and got his back with a switch fs heel. Good times, good people, and good legs :D
Good shit, those knees are hard to feel confident in when you have ligament and meniscus issues. Did you get surgery for the meniscus?
I hear you, going through something very similar (repeatedly strained LCL and probably meniscus damage, tbd) and am opting for taking better care of myself over surgery as well
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no sk9 today because i have a gnarly soon to be pimple and cant pop it yet. its not the heat alert but the fact that i know if i was sweating for hours the evils was gonna swell up in the worst noticeable/embarrassing way possible. it bummed me out tbh i wanted to go practice some shit but cant concentrate if im feeling a throbbing second cranium being born out the forehead. might force it out with an exorcism by tomorrow cuz i want to skate. k its raining now so wouldve had less than 2 hours but i still shouldve went no excuses
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Blew out my patella on a fs lipslide where the ollie just flat didn’t work three and a half weeks ago. (That trick is officially retired on flatbars, but I’ll still kook it and do them on ledges.) Surgery was three weeks ago, the bone was in six pieces but the surgeon was able to get it back together well enough with screws and wire. Prognosis is good, 4-6 months with rehab and I should be back up to skating shape. Hardware out in a year if it gets uncomfortable.
Trying to stay positive, focusing on other things like achievable projects around the house that I’ve ignored for too long and just generally getting myself together a bit, emotionally, without my preferred outlet. Be nice to get some exercise again, when I can.
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I torn my meniscus in my right leg last year and sprained my LCL 4 months ago in my left leg. Been off the board for a while until the 3rd of July. Went to the park to roll around and to my surprise i felt really good. Was able to Ollie our bump over barrier and it gave me the confidence Ive been missing for months. It felt great to skate with my friends that I haven’t seen in a while. My buddy pulled a switch bs flip on the pyramid and got his back with a switch fs heel. Good times, good people, and good legs :D
Good shit, those knees are hard to feel confident in when you have ligament and meniscus issues. Did you get surgery for the meniscus?
I hear you, going through something very similar (repeatedly strained LCL and probably meniscus damage, tbd) and am opting for taking better care of myself over surgery as well
I think it’s the best route if the damage isn’t too severe. It’s like as soon as I turned 30 my knees started going lol PT and a more balance diet have really helped tho. I hope you heal up soon.
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The last time I skated I was like 170, took a year off got back on the board at 205 and went to my favorite local park. There were 13 year olds doing kickflip front boards on the flat bars like first try and an older black girl ripping the tranny. I was like this is rad but man I remember back when if you could flip into anything you were good at the park and now I'm struggling to do anything outside of kickflips, heelflips and 50-50s and boardslides...Even frontside ones were a struggle.
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I was pretty stoked on a line I'm getting down. BS slappy, push across parking lot with 360 power slide pivots, manual the pad, push and pop back onto pad, ride down to heelflip off, boardslide C shaped tall curb. Did the line 2x. Landed some 180flips and think that if I size down to something smaller than 8.5, 360flips won't be so elusive.
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fuuuck I relearned so much shit today fuck yes losing weight is the best choice
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enameled and waxed a planter curb this weekend. was learning bs slappy crooks today, they're funny
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Took my cruiser board around the neighborhood. 5 pushes up hill then turn around and go back down, with minimal pushing I can do about a quarter mile, fun and relaxing.
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Got a high ankle sprain about 2 months ago and the swelling is almost gone, but the good news is I can push around on the board now. I cruised up and down the main road by my house and it felt pretty good. Got a couple ollies in that didn't hurt but that's the most I'm gonna do until it's fully healed. I'm just doing as much PT as I can right now.
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Landed my first switch backside heelflip
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Landed my first switch backside heelflip
Hell yeah man that’s a good one
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Skated a park for the first time by myself for about an hour. Tried to learn a new trick in a two trick line 3/4’s of the time and got really close. It’s been a minute since I pushed myself, and even longer since I’ve pushed myself skating by myself. It felt great.
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Just came back from the closest spot (good flat, two ledges). At first I wanted to skate for 30 minutes but stayed 2h30. I was skating by myslef, it was the perfect skate weather and the best moment of the day (20h00). I landed most of my tricks for an hour then a couple I kind of know came to the spot without a board. They told me I had flow today, nice style, I looked like "those guys who never miss on thrasher" (even tho I am not very good), so for once people say something nice about my skating, I took the compliment and kept skating. I got kind of obsessed with landing the most perfect heelflip I could do for an hour. After that I skated home, stopped at a bar close to my house bought a pinte and watched the end of the euro football game Italy vs Spain.
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Landed my first switch backside heelflip
Yeah I've been trying it casually for years but I just thought about leveling it out and it all clicked
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Solo session at my go-to local spot that no one else skates. Small kerbs and lots of smooth and hard flatground. I rolled my ankle 5 weeks ago and tweaked it again a few days ago on a 360 flip so kept it low key by dorking around with manuals, slappies, tailslides and properly catching pop-shuvs. Nollie and flippy shit is no bueno right now.
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My 3 year old son asked for a skateboard so I ordered him a micro sized complete from Enjoi. It showed up yesterday. We spent a good few hours rolling around together up and down the street in front of our house. Most fun I've had in a while.
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My skate session of today was jinxed. I am on holidays so I decided to skate the schoolyard I usually skate on weekends, on a week day. Bad idea.
I went to the spot and as soon as I was warmed up there was a single black cloud showing up raining just enough to soak the whole place. I patiently waited until the cloud was gone and the yard was dry but sure enough I had to warm up again.
Next there were three little girls riding around with some cycles asking if they were in the clip my wife was filming of me skating. I told them basically no but if they kept playing around where I skated I could not exclude they would be on the clip somewhere in the background. They were not pleased and called a teacher. The teacher was cool but I was distracted and could not get into my routine.
Finally the bell rang and the kids had to go into class, all kids except four pupils who had bicycle class with an old cop who showed them how to ride a bike. Right in front of the ledge I was trying to skate. >:(
When they had finished I had a go at the ledge and sure enough took a good slam first try. Then I had enough and left, frustrated. :'(
Thanks for reading.
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Hit a fun park early in the morning, my second visit there. Realized both my axles were bent on my trucks but that didn’t stop me. Got a good hour+ in solo. Some weird guy walked up at the end who wasn’t skating asking to see my “best trick” and telling me the marks on my board look like I am a vert skater. He then went in to the fact that skating solo is not relaxing. I got zero vibes the dude even skated. I bounced.
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Took a trip to santa fe. Found a hip high drop. Broke two boards trying to kickflip it. Set up my last deck and landed it. Was pretty stoked.
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no sk9 today because i have a gnarly soon to be pimple and cant pop it yet. its not the heat alert but the fact that i know if i was sweating for hours the evils was gonna swell up in the worst noticeable/embarrassing way possible. it bummed me out tbh i wanted to go practice some shit but cant concentrate if im feeling a throbbing second cranium being born out the forehead. might force it out with an exorcism by tomorrow cuz i want to skate. k its raining now so wouldve had less than 2 hours but i still shouldve went no excuses
Use your spork to pop it like ninejah
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i made it way worse prob 10 minutes after posting that its almost healed now
ate too much chicken and grains and passed out half an hour before my usual departure time. woke up at 8 feeling motivated because noble truth life is suffering but joyful participation etc etc. maybe it was a dream too or something. i never miss front shuvems but yesterday was weird so did many of those for a bit. landed a bigspin front nose 1st try so im happy. they dont look great when i do them but whatever. shoes are pretty mangled already so some vheels for sure. havent done a switch front big since the winter but i wasnt true to myself when i forced myself to learn that one so idk. but it does suck to lose a trick so im kinda just throwing a few tries here and there whenever. not the most efficient way to land something so its an action speaking louder than words thing. working on cab flips ive only landed a few before and would like to do them better and consistently. broke a bearing too just fixed that. if the sesh was good im usually on autopilot for a bit after feeling motivated and getting other shit done like laundry tinkering around with the setup or sometimes cook a meal etc
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I’ve been feeling stressed out recently and haven’t skated much, but a friend of mine mentioned there was a session yesterday and I worked up the energy to go skate.
We met up and skated around and filmed 2/3 of a line I’ve been practicing for awhile (too long). Nothing wild but I’d be psyched to get it on film. I’d never done even 2/3 of it before so I was hyped.
He’s a saint, my buddy. Super positive and supportive. One of the tricks is a front nose fakie and I wanted to do it faster and pop out of it at a good sliding speed, but I couldn’t do it. He still egged me on. I get apologetic and self-conscious but a good friend alleviates those feelings.
He’s filming a vid with a lot of dudes who are really good and said I could be a part of it. I’m starting to feel old and weak and slow and just fucked overall but really want to get this line down solid for the vid. I might be plateauing in how I want to push myself, but I’ve still got some juice left.
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Went to my old reliable spot two days in a row and got my runs in, had to avoid smacking into a UPS truck though. I've been stressed lately and feeling down, so I need these kind of pyrihic [sic] victories.
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Bombed a very, very mellow hill by my apartment. I'm still recovering from ankle surgery so this was only the second time I've stood on a board pretty much since last August and the adrenaline spike from the possibility of slamming was glorious. Then I did a tiny ollie over a manhole cover. I've missed skating so much.
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I went to a skatepark with a few peeps. My homie forgot his water and dipped after 2 hours. I suck at transition that is above 2 feet, but I learned to fly out of quarters and got my first fs carve through two bowl corners, shit felt sick.
6 weeks since the ankle roll and I think it is at 60% now. Really takes longer to heal when you get older.
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got fakie hardflips back. 3 sloppy ones then my cleanest one since the winter or prob ever it felt good. no stevie nah
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Set up this bad boy last night and hung ten
(https://i.ibb.co/9wxVcR2/sk8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SQkd5q0)
That Shawn Michaels board is killer.
Last session was on Sunday and we went to prince park in Oceanside. Scooped some little baby backside ollies on the jersey barrier that has nice smooth transition into it as well as some feeble grind to fakies
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5-0's are getting more consistent. The fear is gone when I go for them now. Still need to work on not dragging my tail on them and popping out of them, but I'm pretty proud of myself. Once I get these fully locked into my repertoire, the doors are wide open for tricks like Smith's and whatnot. Pretty excited.
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Went to go back 50 a ledge, missed the back truck, and proceeded to do a long willy grind and shuv'd out. Immediately, yelled "that's not what I meant to do!!" An associate asked "You sure...that was pretty on point and purposeful..and you shuv'd out..." I spent the next few minutes explaining how my back 50s will lock like that sometime and denying said willy grind like I was being accused of some unspeakable crime.
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I've figured that I skate better if I haven't eaten much yet for the day. Food keeps me slow ha ha ha but I was too sluggish last night so I stuck to new for me slappy slide variations. Back tail is pretty elusive, but rode out a couple nollie back boards, nollie tails are making more sense as well. Of course its all slappy but its fun and shouldn't be too hard to take to actual short ledges and rails soon. But ya, thc, water, coffee, no food= way more fun and flow
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Went back to my covid curb. Pretty low energy after cleaning up around the house this morning and some tiki drinks last night, pretty much forced myself to go. Glad i did, got some slappy noseslides, backside slappys and slowly working on old flatground tricks.
At some point my ollie will come around again. right??
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Went back to my covid curb.
Did the same thing yesterday after a month off the board.
Stuck between exhaustion and shitty weather.
Skated in circles for about 15 minutes, between frontside slappies and Ollies on a board that felt too stubby for me to hobble my way back into skateboarding.
Hopefully once the winter clears I’ll get my ass into gear and get some consistency
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My buddy got me an 8.75 popsicle with a 14.75 wheelbase that I was loving. He knew I would never willingly buy a popsicle so he got one for me as a gift, even got it from my old local from before I moved to Texas, Long Beach Skate. I was absolutely loving it. 10 minutes into warming up it snapped.
(https://i.postimg.cc/h4bCC4SM/344-C4-C47-9731-453-C-9-ECF-5-B0-C6-F448-E4-E.jpg)
I set my darkroom darkroom back up. It was sogged out and on deaths door and I knew wouldn’t last. Got a solid 45 minutes out of it before that snapped too. Thankfully I still had my much older and sogged out Dane1. Which lasted about an hour before that snapped too. I understand I can be heavy footed and being 250 isn’t easy on boards, but snapping three decks in the same spot on different tricks and spending the majority of the session setting up boards was a massive bummer. Even if it was entirely my fault for sucking and landing heavy on the tail.
(https://i.postimg.cc/tCkL1B18/12-DA8139-1-D2-C-4-E19-8918-E18-B8-F1-B2016.jpg)
Tl/dr: I snapped three boards and spent the majority of it setting up boards I knew wouldn’t last. Went home bummed, but was stoked to skate with the whole crew.
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I caught a ride over to the park to skate before it got too hot. Nothing remarkable happened there, but on the way home I popped up a curb onto a recently “fixed” sidewalk and had just enough time to think “oh shit, did I miss that loose piece of concrete, or is it under my front truck?” before I was pitched off the sidewalk and back into the gutter. It didn’t hurt, but I imagine it looked pretty hilarious.
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all sunburnt from yesterday probably just go for a walk or something later. you know when the board lands on the wrong side but you got 1 foot under it so its like stomping toes on a casper. i hate that shit
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Got snaked by this little kid when I was trying to drop in. Told him to "watch out, I don't wanna flatten you". Dad came to pick him up, was Tommy Sandoval's kid. Felt like an asshole afterwards. More for admonishing a little kid while he was having fun. Didn't feel any way about who his dad was haha.
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Drove 30 minutes to a park to do the same shit I do at my local spot that's 5 minutes away. Sessioning with other people was nice though.
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fucking sucked so bad. ate like shit and drank too much over the weekend. couldn't warm up, couldn't land anything. time to clean up my act lol
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Drove up to fort collins to get a bike that was out of stock everywhere else. Found a six stair and spent about a half hour trying to half cab it. Finally got it, but was left feeling empty because im sure it was abd so i dont even want to post the footage.
Does anyone else feel like theres no point in working hard for abds? I feel like i have to go to newly constructed areas an hour away to get something worthwhile even though a six stair is a six stair. And i am the only person who cares about my skating so why does it matter? But it does matter to me for some reason.
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Drove up to fort collins to get a bike that was out of stock everywhere else. Found a six stair and spent about a half hour trying to half cab it. Finally got it, but was left feeling empty because im sure it was abd so i dont even want to post the footage.
Does anyone else feel like theres no point in working hard for abds? I feel like i have to go to newly constructed areas an hour away to get something worthwhile even though a six stair is a six stair. And i am the only person who cares about my skating so why does it matter? But it does matter to me for some reason.
Don't care about ABDs man. Except if you are a pro or working on a part. And even if you end up doing the same trick. I am sure, even the same trick can look different. Depends on the skater and his personal style ya know. And (bs?) half-cab a six stair is rad nonetheless. Or go back and do it in a line.
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Drove up to fort collins to get a bike that was out of stock everywhere else. Found a six stair and spent about a half hour trying to half cab it. Finally got it, but was left feeling empty because im sure it was abd so i dont even want to post the footage.
Does anyone else feel like theres no point in working hard for abds? I feel like i have to go to newly constructed areas an hour away to get something worthwhile even though a six stair is a six stair. And i am the only person who cares about my skating so why does it matter? But it does matter to me for some reason.
Don't care about ABDs man. Except if you are a pro or working on a part. And even if you end up doing the same trick. I am sure, even the same trick can look different. Depends on the skater and his personal style ya know. And (bs?) half-cab a six stair is rad nonetheless. Or go back and do it in a line.
If I could do anything down a six stair I wouldn‘t care if it had been done before. Post the footy bro!
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what’s good with dudes who skate andy anderson’s board. i know y’all know what i mean.
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late afternoon just as I was thinking about skating my friend hit me up, thinking the same. we met up at the regular spot in a parc downtown but escaped its vortex quickly. skated a tree stump and a ledge on the way down the busy city street, dropped in on a big ledge with a drop at the end and didn't eat it, got us a bit more hyped. Bombed a little hill that had been converted to pedestrian, doing some slides. lots of success on flips as we cruised along, stopped on a backstreet I knew with very smooth asphalt. This is where the main session happened, on a street with nothing but smoothness, cars not too often and they had to slow down for us but you could tell it semed right, like kids playing in a residential street. We decided to try tricks we don't have on lock over and over, he picked 3flip and I picked hardflip. I one point I stated without irony that it was "hard to flip". We both landed on a couple, his was better than mine,. Thene we cruised to chinatown and I got a toasted cocnut water. it was delicious. exploring around, found a low ledge and I filmed my friend do a line with a slappy crook. We went uptown and split up, I went by a little diy spot in a park and tried nollie flip nose mannies on a tiny manual pad for awhile, didn't get it but it's coming along. Bombed another little hil back to my place. The End.
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Went back to my covid curb.
Did the same thing yesterday after a month off the board.
Stuck between exhaustion and shitty weather.
Skated in circles for about 15 minutes, between frontside slappies and Ollies on a board that felt too stubby for me to hobble my way back into skateboarding.
Hopefully once the winter clears I’ll get my ass into gear and get some consistency
stoked you went tho!
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I did a half cab nose manual on a curb which I got psyched on because it's the first time I've done it since 2013 and in general I've been losing tricks as I got older so I was happy to relearn something
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finally got bigspin flips. 2 muddy ones then forced myself to do 1 decent one with proper full rotation without touch
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Drove up to fort collins to get a bike that was out of stock everywhere else. Found a six stair and spent about a half hour trying to half cab it. Finally got it, but was left feeling empty because im sure it was abd so i dont even want to post the footage.
Does anyone else feel like theres no point in working hard for abds? I feel like i have to go to newly constructed areas an hour away to get something worthwhile even though a six stair is a six stair. And i am the only person who cares about my skating so why does it matter? But it does matter to me for some reason.
Don't care about ABDs man. Except if you are a pro or working on a part. And even if you end up doing the same trick. I am sure, even the same trick can look different. Depends on the skater and his personal style ya know. And (bs?) half-cab a six stair is rad nonetheless. Or go back and do it in a line.
If I could do anything down a six stair I wouldn‘t care if it had been done before. Post the footy bro!
http://imgur.com/gallery/1ysfw5t
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Drove up to fort collins to get a bike that was out of stock everywhere else. Found a six stair and spent about a half hour trying to half cab it. Finally got it, but was left feeling empty because im sure it was abd so i dont even want to post the footage.
Does anyone else feel like theres no point in working hard for abds? I feel like i have to go to newly constructed areas an hour away to get something worthwhile even though a six stair is a six stair. And i am the only person who cares about my skating so why does it matter? But it does matter to me for some reason.
Don't care about ABDs man. Except if you are a pro or working on a part. And even if you end up doing the same trick. I am sure, even the same trick can look different. Depends on the skater and his personal style ya know. And (bs?) half-cab a six stair is rad nonetheless. Or go back and do it in a line.
If I could do anything down a six stair I wouldn‘t care if it had been done before. Post the footy bro!
http://imgur.com/gallery/1ysfw5t
Dope! 8)
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Was skating home from liquor store/burrito spot, hands full. Hit pebble, tossed in the middle of traffic, ate it with whole body, overextended foot. 5 weeks and still out.
Extremely low bar set for next session.
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Drove up to fort collins to get a bike that was out of stock everywhere else. Found a six stair and spent about a half hour trying to half cab it. Finally got it, but was left feeling empty because im sure it was abd so i dont even want to post the footage.
Does anyone else feel like theres no point in working hard for abds? I feel like i have to go to newly constructed areas an hour away to get something worthwhile even though a six stair is a six stair. And i am the only person who cares about my skating so why does it matter? But it does matter to me for some reason.
Don't care about ABDs man. Except if you are a pro or working on a part. And even if you end up doing the same trick. I am sure, even the same trick can look different. Depends on the skater and his personal style ya know. And (bs?) half-cab a six stair is rad nonetheless. Or go back and do it in a line.
If I could do anything down a six stair I wouldn‘t care if it had been done before. Post the footy bro!
http://imgur.com/gallery/1ysfw5t
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I went to the skatepark last week for a news reporter to ask to use my skateboard on their live broadcast for a story about skateboarding, then when he took it and started riding it he pushed mongo so i kinda laughed and said "Yo push with your back foot". I kinda wish i let him push mongo though that would have been way funnier
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Trying to do the straight 8 right now but I’m inconsistent with some tricks. I’ll land a nollie flip or fakie heel (my most inconsistent flip tricks), then miss a fakie flip or nollie heel or something easy. Shits frustrating. Feel like I’m gonna get a heat stroke starting over and over and over again.
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I just hung up so hard on a little 2 foot QP in my driveway with no shirt and tiny soccer shorts. Gave me more road rash then I’ve had in months lmao this suuucks I basically penguin slid with my arms trapped underneath my chest.
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been wanting to get this line two trick line at my local plaza for a while, had only landed the second one a handful times on perfect ledges and this spot is farrrr from perfect. Tried it for about 50 minutes last week (not that crazy for a lot of people I guess, but to me it felt like an eternity as I'm usually filming my friends). Got it yesterday after about another 50 minutes. Keep looking at the small nuances about how it could have been done slightly better but fuckit, happy with it overall and can finally stop thinking about it.
Think its be my first real camera clip that I've struggled for in years. Feels very different to propping your phone against a water bottle.
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been wanting to get this line two trick line at my local plaza for a while, had only landed the second one a handful times on perfect ledges and this spot is farrrr from perfect. Tried it for about 50 minutes last week (not that crazy for a lot of people I guess, but to me it felt like an eternity as I'm usually filming my friends). Got it yesterday after about another 50 minutes. Keep looking at the small nuances about how it could have been done slightly better but fuckit, happy with it overall and can finally stop thinking about it.
Think its be my first real camera clip that I've struggled for in years. Feels very different to propping your phone against a water bottle.
May I ask what the line was?
But nonetheless, I am stoked you went out and pushed yourself.
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been wanting to get this line two trick line at my local plaza for a while, had only landed the second one a handful times on perfect ledges and this spot is farrrr from perfect. Tried it for about 50 minutes last week (not that crazy for a lot of people I guess, but to me it felt like an eternity as I'm usually filming my friends). Got it yesterday after about another 50 minutes. Keep looking at the small nuances about how it could have been done slightly better but fuckit, happy with it overall and can finally stop thinking about it.
Think its be my first real camera clip that I've struggled for in years. Feels very different to propping your phone against a water bottle.
May I ask what the line was?
But nonetheless, I am stoked you went out and pushed yourself.
Thank you appreciate it! It was a fakie backside nosegrind, turn around a corner, then switch flip back tail.
Fakie ng was most tries, but the wooden bench for the sw flip tail was all soft n sticky so not immediately having my wheels jam on the side even when I did get in was a bit of a nightmare.
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been wanting to get this line two trick line at my local plaza for a while, had only landed the second one a handful times on perfect ledges and this spot is farrrr from perfect. Tried it for about 50 minutes last week (not that crazy for a lot of people I guess, but to me it felt like an eternity as I'm usually filming my friends). Got it yesterday after about another 50 minutes. Keep looking at the small nuances about how it could have been done slightly better but fuckit, happy with it overall and can finally stop thinking about it.
Think its be my first real camera clip that I've struggled for in years. Feels very different to propping your phone against a water bottle.
May I ask what the line was?
But nonetheless, I am stoked you went out and pushed yourself.
Thank you appreciate it! It was a fakie backside nosegrind, turn around a corner, then switch flip back tail.
Fakie ng was most tries, but the wooden bench for the sw flip tail was all soft n sticky so not immediately having my wheels jam on the side even when I did get in was a bit of a nightmare.
Damn. That's a sick line.
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half the day at the spot with minimal water my feet are fkn aching. shelby came around
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Old guy who finally started skating last year, but petered out after getting comfortable cruising, and finally deciding to progress a month ago. Swapped out my 92a cruiser wheels for 83b hard as shit wheels and I just felt so sluggish and couldn't keep momentum.
Worked on some garage ollies in the am, getting more consistent. Still not consistent going faster than a crawl. Went to a really shitty suburban park with a 3ft metal quarter pipe, leading to a3ft metal "bank". Got comfortable backside turning a foot shy of coping. But the Pavement was awful and I left. Too scared to drop in lol.
Went to my favorite underpass park with giant mellow banks. Couldn't work up the courage to frontside turn without jumping off.
Went to the brewery down the street to get liquid courage. It was too tasty and I had one more beer than I intended, but that got me really loose and I started pushing really well on the hard wheels and keeping up speed better. Skated the banks again but kept it to backside turns and slightly faster ollies.
Went home but decided to stop at the nice, sloped, red curb that you can skate straight into a 5050 to get a feel for grinding, but I shot the board backwards straight into a crazy busy street and called it quits.
(https://i.ibb.co/LZwZWcn/IMG-20210727-140518657-HDR.jpg) (https://ibb.co/LZwZWcn)
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It was a fundraiser event at my local: tic-tac races for the kids, a miniramp sesh and then an open (non-berric's rules) game of skate. I went up against at 20 year or so year old sponsored skater who traveled down for the event (I'm 43). Since there basically no rules, I pulled out some old skool tricks and got him to E which I was pretty stoked on. It was actually my first game of skate I've ever played in my life so it was kinda nerve racking having so many people watch my old arse try and huck tricks.
My wife thought it was cool that there are tricks that the younger generation don't know about (probably for a good reason though).
a 50 year old guy who skates my local every single weekend also entered and did street plant variations (ala Mike V vs. Chris Cole) which was super entertaining for me to watch.
I was talking to my son about losing and this other little young kid said to me, "you lost but your game was super fun to watch" which melted my heart. Got to spend some time just cruising around with my son too which is always fun!
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Just beat my apprentice at skate in the carpark ;D
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went to check out a bank to wall but it was an utter disappointment. lowass bank barely there and broken glass scattered about with too many cars
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It was a fundraiser event at my local: tic-tac races for the kids, a miniramp sesh and then an open (non-berric's rules) game of skate. I went up against at 20 year or so year old sponsored skater who traveled down for the event (I'm 43). Since there basically no rules, I pulled out some old skool tricks and got him to E which I was pretty stoked on. It was actually my first game of skate I've ever played in my life so it was kinda nerve racking having so many people watch my old arse try and huck tricks.
My wife thought it was cool that there are tricks that the younger generation don't know about (probably for a good reason though).
a 50 year old guy who skates my local every single weekend also entered and did street plant variations (ala Mike V vs. Chris Cole) which was super entertaining for me to watch.
I was talking to my son about losing and this other little young kid said to me, "you lost but your game was super fun to watch" which melted my heart. Got to spend some time just cruising around with my son too which is always fun!
Sounds like a great event, respect
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Slappy front tail, into fakie krook, back to tail, couldn't get it but I'm close, going to back to tail was fuckign me up.
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empty park and some cop asked me if I sell fentanyl
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empty park and some cop asked me if I sell fentanyl
Sounds like a nice ice breaking question to start a civil adult conversation at a public park. That is truly terrible.
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empty park and some cop asked me if I sell fentanyl
He said he was an undercover, if so I'm just mad that that guy gets paid by the city to go ask people who probably aren't drug dealers (it was 2pm, at a skatepark with a skateboard, next door to an elementary school, and asked in the most obvious cop set up possible) if they're drug dealers, and make shit jokes about the other people at the park. (He asked me if I was better than "those bums" and the only other people in the park were a guy eating and a father and son).
But maybe I'm just jealous I didn't get in on that sweet waste of tax money.
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Learned slappys
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I’m on holidays in the south west of France and there is a small skatepark so I decided to have a little routine (i’m getting old) : wake up, breakfast, stretching and go the skatepark (3 minutes away), skate for 2-3 hours. Turns out I went to the skatepark at 10am and the skatepark was already full of scooters and kids on bikes. The park is « U » shaped so it’s hard to skate all of it without getting stop by kids or scooters.
I also have a new board so it’s always hard to me to get comfortable, like a few sessions.
The few skaters were mostly teenagers but they were cool despite being mostly Berrics-esque type skateboarders. I also spotted my first Cariumas in the wild. I’m a big skaterat so I talked about old Transworld videos with a guy in his early 40s I think, he was skating with his daughter I think and it seemed that she enjoyed it and I love when kids have fun skateboarding.
There are also a dad with his kid, they didn’t reply when I said hello. Thought they were from abroad but they are French. The kid was like 12-13 years old, seemed ultra shy so I didn’t insist talking to them ; and was absolutely destroying the park. Turns out the dad was filming with his iPhone (for Instagram) and telling his son the lines to do like : « start with a kickflip to fakie, then cab on the hip, then switch lipslide… ». Lines he executed perfectly haha.
That said I skated easy and did the tricks I wanted to. Today I went to the park at 9am, there was still a few scooters but more space. A guy taught me how to do backside no comply, I struggled with it since 5 years now and I landed one. Also did a pole jam.
So I’m quite happy with my last sessions, good to have a routine. A routine I can’t have in Paris due to work etc. Also I didn’t hurt my 32 years old self hehe.
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The past week or two I've been living like a night owl cause its too hot to go out during the day and i don't feel like getting sunburned. Two days ago I snuck out of my house around 6:00 am and hauled ass south down the freeway to the biggest park in my city. No body was there and i just pumped through the bowls as fast as I could because they're massive af like 9ft and above and didn't feel like cracking my head open with no one around for help.
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At the usual spot for about an hour. Kickflips turned funky for no reason whatsoever, manual ollie manual coming along, sussed out foot position and weight for bs 180 fakie manual, short 360 flip and big spin battles and to cap it all off I decided to try switch nollie big spin (more like fakie big off the nose) for the first time ever and was stoked on how quickly it came to me.
I think I may be developing jumper's knee.
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2 months ago, pop shuv down a little set, drunk, front foot slipped off the nose, rolled my ankle so hard I chipped my fibula.
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last Friday, went to a marble ledge spot I drove by a bunch of times. It's in the kind of sketch area. Like when pulling up I saw a dude on a dirtbike deliver drugs to a guy standing outside the gas station across the street.
The ledges go like nothing I've felt in my life, but the ground is brink and so it's hard to get speed and I really couldn't find a line. I did film a kickflip noseslide.
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I saw Osiris and a Sk8 Mafia deck in the wild and remembered how bad San Diego’s legacy for producing good product was.
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Couldn't quite roll away a clean fakie bigflip, that last 90 degrees was eluding me today. I hate pivoting out of tricks. Typical as I had the camera set up to try and finally get a clean one filmed.
Did land a nice kickflip first try though, always satisfying.
Oh and the miserable old lady who lives opposite my spot shouted at me again, I used to engage but ignoring her seems to wind her up even more.
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Skated some hills... woke up with a sore lower-to-middle back. Getting old sucks
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bank and ledge 2 little spots nearby. you know when its so hot you gotta pace water because its either drink too much too fast and get bloated or not enough in time and have to almost dry heave. i sweat a lot though. was mostly just doing backside flips
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Had a pounding headache that developed as soon as I started skating. Only lasted like 15 harsh minutes trying to get through some warm-up tricks before deciding to just head home.
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I saw multiple blank decks in the wild for the first time in about 15 years.
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730 AM. Curb spot. Cruised around doing ride on grinds for about 15 minutes. Some lady showed up and told me a bunch of cars were coming to use the parking lot. I told her that it’s a parking lot, that’s what happens. I think she wanted me to leave but I’m 45 and not breaking any laws so I just turned my music up and stayed. Realized my axles were bent on my trucks and called it a day about 45 minutes later.
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Did some basics. Friend did the splits and tore a groin muscle.
I probably need to set up a new board because my tail is down to the middle ply.
EDIT: I had fun.
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i’m on a two month skate/hike/bike tour livin out of my nissan. i’m in upstate ny rn and i skated frm brunch to the local park here which was weird and downhill. had fun nonetheless.
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i’m on a two month skate/hike/bike tour livin out of my nissan. i’m in upstate ny rn and i skated frm brunch to the local park here which was weird and downhill. had fun nonetheless.
hit up some NC spots on your trip if you’re headed that way
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i’m on a two month skate/hike/bike tour livin out of my nissan. i’m in upstate ny rn and i skated frm brunch to the local park here which was weird and downhill. had fun nonetheless.
possibly next leg- gotta be back in philly in oct for a wedding but i’d love to swing down south as it cools down a lil
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i’m on a two month skate/hike/bike tour livin out of my nissan. i’m in upstate ny rn and i skated frm brunch to the local park here which was weird and downhill. had fun nonetheless.
possibly next leg- gotta be back in philly in oct for a wedding but i’d love to swing down south as it cools down a lil
we’ve had our back and forths but if you happen to make it down this way send me a message and we can skate some!
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i’m on a two month skate/hike/bike tour livin out of my nissan. i’m in upstate ny rn and i skated frm brunch to the local park here which was weird and downhill. had fun nonetheless.
possibly next leg- gotta be back in philly in oct for a wedding but i’d love to swing down south as it cools down a lil
absolutely. unless ur racist or sexist chances are i’m fuckin around on here anyway, i’m v quiet in real life and i like to skate with anyone
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i’m on a two month skate/hike/bike tour livin out of my nissan. i’m in upstate ny rn and i skated frm brunch to the local park here which was weird and downhill. had fun nonetheless.
possibly next leg- gotta be back in philly in oct for a wedding but i’d love to swing down south as it cools down a lil
absolutely. unless ur racist or sexist chances are i’m fuckin around on here anyway, i’m v quiet in real life and i like to skate with anyone
yeah definitely neither of those two. same here though just hit me up if you happen to make your way down here!
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Not long back after many years of the board. Early morning at the skate park so just trying to warm up. Few manuals on the flat. Hit crack and get launched. Hobble back to car and go home lol
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flat for less than an hour. ran out of water so i left
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some friends and i went skating after work the other day and we get to the diy we usually go to and we get there and the whole place looks like someone took a sledgehammer to it. we’re looking around taking pictures to spread the word and then my friend points out there’s a no trespassing sign and we realize the owner of the spot we would skate had put an end to it. rip. so we went to the park we try to avoid most of the time but they have a fun mini ramp so it was as fun as we could make it. bummed on the diy being done though. best spot within a 20 minute radius
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Recently I’ve met a few older guys at the park up here and we will meet up every other to skate with each other, it’s a lot of fun, and I’ve actually been progressing which for a 35 year old is tough, but yea four or five guys a six pack each a speaker and a five foot ledge at a skatepark….super fun
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Pushed around in between using steel stick to fix a gap between curbs and then spraying a fresh coat of lacquer. Next session is layer two and skating a cone to work on ollies maybe bring my flat rail.
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Recently I’ve met a few older guys at the park up here and we will meet up every other to skate with each other, it’s a lot of fun, and I’ve actually been progressing which for a 35 year old is tough, but yea four or five guys a six pack each a speaker and a five foot ledge at a skatepark….super fun
Sounds like a good time. I do the same except for the beer or the friends… or the speaker.
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Tried to skate during lunch. After 15 minutes I admitted it too fucking hot, got pissed off and drove home.
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I went solo to this curb spot. My friend showed up to complain about his job, and chip the curb up with his E. Honda 5050s. It helps to type this out.
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Had a session yesterday, pretty soon I felt my lower back start tensing up and it progressively got worse. I thought to myself is this what I get for being old and trying to skate 2 days in a row… then I looked down and saw a damned pair of Half Cabs and remembered ”Oh yeah, this is why I stopped skating in Vans!” No matter the amount of Kush, Ultra or otherwise, they always seem to have this effect on me but after a while in cupsoles I had forgot how bad it was. Otherwise pretty time breaking in the Quasi board that was a whopping 3mm narrower than the previous FA but look so skinny when standing on it.
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Last time I went skating, me and a friend started off at these slappy curbs. Afterwards, we just went looking for new spots. Found a couple, but nothing too exciting. Pretty chill day.
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Landed 6/8 trying the straight 8 flip trick thing.
Landed in a few bs tails. Felt like I made a little more progress on them today. So stoked even though no rollaway yet.
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Session was cut really short due to some rain unfortunately but im always pretty happy anytime i can do at least one 360 flip a session. Those are getting a lot more consistent.
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Session was cut really short due to some rain unfortunately but im always pretty happy anytime i can do at least one 360 flip a session. Those are getting a lot more consistent.
You know what they say
A tre flip a day keeps the posers away
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Last day of a 10-day streak on Sunday at the solo spot. Mainly worked on getting out of slappy fs crooks regs (not even close), nollie flips (nope), big spins (not quite there yet), 360 flips (gonna land these real soon) and bs 180 fakie manuals (hit and miss). Did way too many kickflips and bs & fs pop shuvs as always. Work and rain got me stuck indoors until the weekend at least.
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Recently I’ve met a few older guys at the park up here and we will meet up every other to skate with each other, it’s a lot of fun, and I’ve actually been progressing which for a 35 year old is tough, but yea four or five guys a six pack each a speaker and a five foot ledge at a skatepark….super fun
I need this in my life. Got room for a 45 year old?
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Recently I’ve met a few older guys at the park up here and we will meet up every other to skate with each other, it’s a lot of fun, and I’ve actually been progressing which for a 35 year old is tough, but yea four or five guys a six pack each a speaker and a five foot ledge at a skatepark….super fun
Sounds like a good time. I do the same except for the beer or the friends… or the speaker.
Lol same..I would like to add the friends but I will settle for the speaker.
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first time with a primitive deck yesterday. it's pretty good i'd say. i like the shape.
in yesterday's session i learned lazer flips. it's an 8.5 wade desarmo primitive.
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Did a few slappies on my parking block and a few rail slides. Pretty good stuff, 7/10
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I only get to hit the park once a week if it's not raining because I live out in bumfuck but I'm blessed to have a decent sized garage with smooth concrete. Been working on fs flips and switch heels. Also a wildcard fakie varial heel. Landing the SW heel and fs flips but want them consistent before I can say I learned a new trick. Fakie varial heel is more elusive tho. I can get close but haven't landed on one yet.
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Went to the local with my wife on roller skates and son on his scooter, did a trick over the hip and adjacent quarter pipe while they were on the playground. Then filmed a triples skate/scoot line.
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slappy boardslided the fuck out my new board on an unwaxed curb. I bought candles at the closest grocery store to make it slide haha.
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slappy boardslided the fuck out my new board on an unwaxed curb. I bought candles at the closest grocery store to make it slide haha.
What constitutes a slappy boardslide, when you don't need to ollie to get into it? Which would mean any boardslide on any curb basically?
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slappy boardslided the fuck out my new board on an unwaxed curb. I bought candles at the closest grocery store to make it slide haha.
What constitutes a slappy boardslide, when you don't need to ollie to get into it? Which would mean any boardslide on any curb basically?
Somehow yes. But there was a little « bank » at the beginning of the curb. Similar to this yellow one at the beginning of this part :
https://youtu.be/iv91O8RvU84
Also I live in France and painted « American » curbs are quite rare.
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Rode my bike down to a ledge spot to work on front crooks. Right next to it is a fenced in parking lot the town uses to park retired ambulances and cop cars. There’s a shit load of cameras watching it. A teenager with nasty ass teeth rides up on a lawnmower up and asks if I have a smoke. I tell him no and notice he’s tweaking. He drives his lawnmower to the fence and starts punching it and screaming so I rode home.
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Skating was unremarkable, but I noticed a disconcerting increase in the number of improvised melee weapons amongst the local pharmaceutical enthusiasts. Couple hockey sticks and a walking staff/spear.
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Got half a hour in before a downpour. Not long but still that's fourth day skating in a row. Walked across the street and drank with associates under a theater awning while it rained. Home now and going to watch slasher movies in celebration of Friday the 13th.
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Did about 3 hours in the midday Louisiana sun. Did some nollie varial flips (bleh). Did some really clean fakie back tails. Hadn’t done one in about 20 years. Working on nose slide to crooks. No dice yet, but they’re getting there
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Went out to try and clear my head of setup madness.
Showed up to this back alley spot and started to warm up.
Some dude and his kids showed up not long after I did and dreaded having the small talk “ I used to skate” shit, but turned out I knew the guy and had a good 40 minutes or so before the wind got to much
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Back to my covid curb again. 2nd session on the new board/wheels set up. Surprisingly I felt pretty good on the board considering how little I actually skate. Did a bunch of slappy's, slappy noseslides and worked on my fairy limited flatground. It was dumb hot by myself in a parking so ended after an hour
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i am working on a video now since like march and i am wrapping it up. my camera is on its last legs, when i put the tape it sometimes it just says EjECT TAPE striaght away and wont work. also my mac laptop is severly fucked , screen is almost falling off the hinges entirely its from like 2005 or some shhit
anyway my homey is on vacation for a few days so i set up solo at the spot and just worked on this trick for a god damned hour and finally got it. all sweaty before work but fully worth it. cant wait to show the vid hopefully will be done by next week.
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Here I was, on my day off.
I woke up early to go catch a quick session at the new Team Brick bank park. It's maybe 3 weeks old at this point and is alright but it has the only decent hip within a 2 hour radius. The swamp ass Virginia air was making my fat ass sweat while I cruised around on my 13" board to warm up.
Decided to skate the hip with this completely ridiculous set-up because I had been doing Bs flips on it while taking out my trash. Well, one thing led to another and I ended up trying to do a casper flip 180 over it. The board ended up on the top section of the ramp causing me to put my full body weight down on the side of my ankle. This caused it to dislocate and I put my full weight down on just my tib+fib.
I'm currently 1 surgery down and 1 more to go before I'm cleared to start physical therapy. Probably not going to skate for at least another year and most like going to retire my big, stupid, drunk impulse buy 13" board.
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oof yeah i dont really like to sktae much hips these days, even really mellow one i try to just stick to shove it tricks. so easy for that shit to go wrong. it does feel sick to roll away from those tricks with speed though but yeah i dont have the confidence / speed to skate that kind of stuff with flip tricks right now.
i just hit the curb spot again at lunch and got another trick that took me WAY longer than it should have only in that i got it seemingly like 3rd try this morning warming up only to battle it out just now in the heat. but the one i ended up getting was so good so i am glad i fought it out i went WAY faster on the good one i got vs the warm up one i did this morning.
2/2 today is hype, probably going to be rain next few days waiting for the homey to get back form vacation to hanlde just like 1 or 2 more things and wrap up this damn vid!!!
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Met up with Freelance Vagrant and his buddy at a local park, rolled in with water in one hand and coffee in the other, hit a crack and went down spilling my coffee and bruising two ribs. Totally not embarrassing at all, definitely made my morning super awesome.
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oof yeah i dont really like to sktae much hips these days, even really mellow one i try to just stick to shove it tricks. so easy for that shit to go wrong. it does feel sick to roll away from those tricks with speed though but yeah i dont have the confidence / speed to skate that kind of stuff with flip tricks right now.
i just hit the curb spot again at lunch and got another trick that took me WAY longer than it should have only in that i got it seemingly like 3rd try this morning warming up only to battle it out just now in the heat. but the one i ended up getting was so good so i am glad i fought it out i went WAY faster on the good one i got vs the warm up one i did this morning.
2/2 today is hype, probably going to be rain next few days waiting for the homey to get back form vacation to hanlde just like 1 or 2 more things and wrap up this damn vid!!!
That's sick to hear mate. Looking forward to your video.
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Weather forecast was promising rain for the next 5 days so after dinner with the family I quickly rushed to the nearest park hoping to get 20 minutes in as the clouds were already rolling in, but rain didn’t start until 45 minutes later so it felt like a win.
Did probably the best bs 5050 I’ve managed so far and unsuccessfully battled a dumb slappy nose shuv out like a poser.
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bank. backside flips caspers and practicing proper noseblunts. some flippitydoos in between. i love a good pissed off sesh
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met the homey at this spot
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSvEebiB83H/
was really good session despite it being insanely hot out
got double flip, heel varial off the curb, kickflip off the curb, super nice frontside slappy, nollie 5050, fakie blind 180 heel
was just good to be outside. i really wanted to film stuff to finish my vid but iwas just too pooched and wanst feeling it in my heart
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@PuffinMuffin ouch that looks bad, I hope it heals quickly.
@rawbertson that‘s a long manny dude!
My last two sessions sucked. All was fine on Monday, I got kickflips up and down curbs and over small gaps but since I replaced my bushings on Tuesday my set up doesn‘t feel the same and my kickflips are somehow off. I hope I‘ll get used quickly but I‘ll have to change the deck shortly as well and I dread this will mean further relearning/adjusting instead of progressing.
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evening slappies. didnt see shelby and hot enough today i had the whole spot to myself. fiddys flip fiddys and such. working on other shit. some kid probably like 10 with a plastic cruiser was lurking so i just said something like hey glad you have that but ask your parents to get you a wooden board. he obliged
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Cracked my board on a flatground nollie popshuvit. I was not satisfied
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haven’t really been feeling 100% with my skating as of late but i also haven’t really been skating as much due to work, a new(er) relationship, and just a lot of stress that i keep to myself, but been parking far away from work so i can skate to and from my car everyday/every time i leave work (making up reasons just to get some time to cruise around) and i must say that just pushing around town on my cruiser has brought me a lot of joy recently. brings me back to being a kid and not knowing or caring about anything other than just riding my board.
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In covid lockdown in Sydney, feeling like i need to get out and do SOMETHING last Friday night. The local skateparks are crowded as hell during lockdown so I go skate an empty multi level carpark that’s a few years old, has three large open levels connected by down ramps, with nice smooth concrete, the bottom two levels are always empty. There’s one sweet little waxed parking block, some little waxed curbs, a kinda cool waxed curb that leads into a carpark down ramp into the bottom level. I’ve done around 20 000 steps on my meter reading route that day at work, one beer in me. I’ve got a sore foot arch on my front foot, some arch support inserts that make my shoes a little too snug to the point of discomfort. I’m late 30s and clinging to a shrinking bag of lame tricks. Listening to a comedy podcast while I skate. The bottom level of the carpark is pay-to-park and normally has boom gates but they’re removed for some kind of work so I drive down, then notice license plate recognition cameras and spend most the skate mildly anxious I’m gonna have to pay to get out of the carpark exit boom gates. Took a broom with me to sweep toxic looking concrete carpark dust off some little down curbs that are on the side of the down ramps. Wax em up and try some lame little 50/50s up and down to break em in. Did one or two shitty little bluntslides on the double sided curb. Maybe some fakie ollies and tiny nollies on flat. Feet sore as shit. Felt very rusty, probably didn’t even flip my board. Went home feeling unsatisfied and pretty bad at skateboarding.
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Usually just stick to the mini but the park was empty so I messed around on the ledges. Got fakie shove switch 5050 half cab off in like 15 tries which blew my mind. Never even got one on the low box before that day
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Finally re-learned fs smith grinds on ledges. Not a hard trick, and one I’ve done thousands of times, but I’ve had a real mental block with them since coming back to skating.
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Skated the curb adjacent to the local park. Did the best frontside slaps of my life, or so it felt, anyway. Kinda invented a trick: stepped off with my back foot during a fs 5050 as I lost speed and gave a little jazz push as the board came off the curb and hopped back on. Tried a couple intentionally and it’s totally doable and dorky enough I plan on getting them down.
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Tried no comply disasters last Friday. Landed with my feet too close together but thought I could get away with readjusting my feet while rolling back in. My back foot ended up slipping off and my old ass did the splits.
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went skating for the first time in 10 years last weekend. borrowed a board and skated a little kinda closed off park in San Francisco with no traffic. some mellow hills and some curbs and got some flatground back. surprised myself with some stuff i could still pull off. but man was i sore..still kinda am....now i'm super excited to get a board pieced together. some PALs are helpin me with that and i'm super excited. thanks to all you all of making me excited to get back on the board.
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Drove 45 mins to the new park, got there early. Rain kind of flooded it so the skateable part was smaller. A few dudes showed up who were ripping and had def skated the park before. I couldn’t skate anywhere without being in the way, so I watched for a few and bailed. I wasn’t there to be a spectator. An hour and a half round trip for maybe 30 mins of skating. Went to the local curb and there was one car in the while lot, parked right in front of the curb. Went home bummed since I was looking forward to skating today all week. Maybe next time.
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Embarrassed but I landed my first kickflip yesterday.
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Embarrassed but I landed my first kickflip yesterday.
Why would you be embarrassed about that?
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Embarrassed but I landed my first kickflip yesterday.
Not embarrassing at all! Right on!
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i did a heelflip on a snow quaterpipe...
it was actually a dream
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Finally started landing kickflips. Spent the past year working on them. I'd occasionally land one, but it was sporadic. I watched every youtube, instagram, etc howto. However, I ultimately found a body and foot position that worked (facing more forward than square with the board and then split the board when I ollie) and it all fell into place and felt natural.
Also started working on rock fakies. I can do rock&rolls, but the rock to fakie sketch me out and I would slam every time. But there is no reason it shouldn't be in my bag o' tricks, so I'm just going to push through the mindfuck.
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Went street skating with a homie last week. Went to this bank spot that's a bit steep and has a fucked up roll-up. Took a bad slam rolling up to the bank with speed and getting pitched by a loose brick in the brick pathway. Tried to get a basic feeble stall on the bank after and ended up rolling my ankle after about 15-20 minutes of trying. I'll definitely have to go back to that spot once my ankle is in better shape again.
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All my skate stuff has broken or gotten way too old to use at once. I guess my old skate shoes are still good for half a dozen more sessions but they run a size big (which I didn’t realize when I bought them) so I was getting heel bruise and tweaking my ankles like crazy wearing those death traps. Also made getting a proper flick very inconsistent. Worst shoes I’ve ever had probably.
My deck was razor tailed and chipped to hell on both sides, lost its pop, then semi snapped while I warmed up today.
Some dummy convinced me to get thunder trucks like 2 years ago and I’ve hated every moment of having them. I thought I had another month or two with them before I could go back to indys but those also broke today, although further along in the story.
Haven’t gotten new wheels in 2 years so they look straight out of the 90s now. People regularly comment to me at skateparks how tiny my wheels are. They were normal sized at one time.
I changed my bearings once at the beginning of covid but was gonna get some more when I got new wheels, although that shit needs speeding up now because I broke my bearings today too.
Fools keep stealing my skate tools.
Also missing a few pieces of hardware.
Anyway, I had a warmup session today, was skating as good as I could on a destroyed board. Then it snapped and the skate shop opened so I left to go get new deck and shoes, plus the dopest skate tool I’ve ever seen. Got back to the park, set up the board instantly fell in love with the shoes. I had the most consistent little 5 minute session of my life because I could actually feel my shoes for the first time in months. Then I tried to ollie a medium sized gap, and my bearing in one wheel exploded. The bearing wrapped itself around my hanger and the wheel was all fucked up too. I wasn’t about to go back to the shop to spend more money.
Got home and realized all the nuts on the wheels were stripped as hell from when I changed the bearings that first time during covid. Spent an hour prying those off to get the destroyed bearing and wheels off. Then I realized all the hangers are slightly bent and the tracks are all beyond fucked up now. So I need new trucks, wheels, and bearings before I can skate again after already dropping $120 to skate for a 5 minutes today.
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Rained out 2X today.
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did a rocket kickflip and spent like 30 minutes overthinking shit and just getting more and more rocket
then cracked my board on the tail
i literally set it up today :(
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Man, that nazi shit is such a bummer.
I had the most fun session in a very long time today. The guy I usually went skating with always screams and just acting like a idiot. And he didn't want to come today because he doesn't like my other homie. I am too old for that princess kindergarten shit and just want to dork around with my friends. It was so nice to just skate and having fun, without someone screaming and throwing his board.
Enough of that drama, more skating. I relearned switch pop shuvs and half cab no comply (bs), such a strange trick. My ankle feels at 60% now after the last ankle roll 5 weeks ago. Thanks for your attention pals.
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Man, that nazi shit is such a bummer.
I had the most fun session in a very long time today. The guy I usually went skating with always screams and just acting like a idiot. And he didn't want to come today because he doesn't like my other homie. I am too old for that princess kindergarten shit and just want to dork around with my friends. It was so nice to just skate and having fun, without someone screaming and throwing his board.
Enough of that drama, more skating. I relearned switch pop shuvs and half cab no comply (bs), such a strange trick. My ankle feels at 60% now after the last ankle roll 5 weeks ago. Thanks for your attention pals.
What a coincidence, I just learned switch pop shoves and filmed the first one today. Then I got a few okayish kickflips and heelflips but slightly tweaked my ankle a half hour into the session and called it a day, not going to risk a more seriuos injury…
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Man, that nazi shit is such a bummer.
I had the most fun session in a very long time today. The guy I usually went skating with always screams and just acting like a idiot. And he didn't want to come today because he doesn't like my other homie. I am too old for that princess kindergarten shit and just want to dork around with my friends. It was so nice to just skate and having fun, without someone screaming and throwing his board.
Enough of that drama, more skating. I relearned switch pop shuvs and half cab no comply (bs), such a strange trick. My ankle feels at 60% now after the last ankle roll 5 weeks ago. Thanks for your attention pals.
What a coincidence, I just learned switch pop shoves and filmed the first one today. Then I got a few okayish kickflips and heelflips but slightly tweaked my ankle a half hour into the session and called it a day, not going to risk a more seriuos injury…
I don't have them on lock but switch pop shuvs feel so good if I happen to pop and catch them.
I think it is smart to end the session earlier if you tweak your ankle. And we all should strengthen our ankles more.
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Went to my little metal prefab local and slid a few front tails on the small quarter. Can only imagine how good a loud front tail on big concrete transition would feel!
Worked up to sliding back tails on transition, still not there yet but I can take a backside 5-0 to a stuttering lil tail stall. Someday I'll get a wild bug up my ass and push through a tailslide...
A few weeks back I gave a bunch of local kids at this park old boards, and at least two of then came up to me to explain what they'd learned while riding them. The kind of motivation I need to start really giving back.
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Park was blown out with returning college students or something. I skated the adjacent curb. Did a bunch of bs & fs slappies with minimal run up- some “one inch punch” type stuff. Just in my own little world.
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Went outside without stretching landed a few kickflips in a row(not typical being 44) to start things off and it started down-pouring. Retreated back inside to the couch.
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Drove into town to hit up the local park. Was greeted with some new "artwork", tried to pour water on it thinking it was chalk, it wasn't. Ended up skating street with a friend. Did a front tailslide and a clean half cab nose manny, haven't done those tricks in years, felt good. We parted ways right before it rained.
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Piss on it for me.
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It was hot af. I started drinking too early into the session. Got a personal slappy first still. Then ate two piece chicken meal with a biscuit from a gas a station guzzled down with a few more beers as I watched my friends rip. Then our wives and girlfriends simultaneously started to phone us with the "where are you at" text. The session winded to a halt. The sun had won anyway.
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too humid in the northeast lately, I do a couple grinds and suddenly I could win a wet t shirt contest. Last session I did get a fakie bigflip manual on a downhill pad, two shirts later.
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Went to a random foundation that’s been destroyed it was mad humid but got a little line.
Kf up and over a bank to bank manual and fs shuv off a loading dock, totally fluked it.
I can’t wait for the fall and winter hoodies and baggy pants….
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couple slappy back tails and im happy. few sessions ago i faced a large cheese at 3 and skated not that well but got a switch flip 1st try at the end so that kinda made up for it. havent seen shelby in a minute
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Finally back tailed and front smithed my new curb spot. Both of those tricks are super hard on small curbs for me. Couple decent 360 flips and kickflips, stuck a switch flip, then slammed hard on one. Been trying to clean up my shuvs in all directions while skating faster too.
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Got to park, did "stop n' chat", pissed down with rain.
Got grinder and fixed a couple of popped up crete spots and filled a hole with bondo.
Didn't take picture or look for social media adulation, so did it even happen?
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Got to park, did "stop n' chat", pissed down with rain.
Got grinder and fixed a couple of popped up crete spots and filled a hole with bondo.
Didn't take picture or look for social media adulation, so did it even happen?
Not to most people under the age of 30 unfortunately. Crustodians need not for likes, they're fueled by the stoke itself. But I'm sure you know that already <3.
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Tried to skate wooden manuel pads on my campus with homies. Security golf cart rolls up and smashes into the corner of one fucking it all up. Neither us nor the security know how to react. I guess he finally processed what just happened so he starts getting pissed. He tells us to dip so we head to a different place and sit down at some tables and skate a bit of flat.
Same guy rolls up 15 mins later with 2 cops and checks us all for warrants and threatens the homies with trespassing and then reported me to the dean. So wack cuz I skate these spots every day with no issue.
Skated the park after that.
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My last session was one year ago and I don’t really know why...I just don’t want to skate right now (in 22 years of skateboarding)
I’ve made a thread about it in what ever.
I wait till it comes back I guess.
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solo flatground (not really solo, was with my nearly four year old who was doing his thing also). it went magic. in the space of about 40 mins (quite a lot of which was just chatting with my boy) i landed about 75% of my whole repetoire, finishing with my first switch flip in over a year. i think it's genuinely the most stoked i've been off a flat ground trick since my first regular kickflip. kiddo was hyped for me! feeling good. actually my knees feel kind of weird, but aside from that...
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rained out at about the halfway point last night. today some dude was jogging with headphones and randomly tried to do some parkour type of shit in passing and dropped his phone. then he came back after like 20 minutes and stood high and mighty just frozen looking around for a minute like robocop
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360 flipped the new box we built on the first try ever. Still can´t believe it.
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360 flipped the new box we built on the first try ever. Still can´t believe it.
Nice. I had a similar experience in my last session. I tried front boards on this low flatbar and rolled away from one (not first try, but the first in my life!) and followed it up by a nice heelflip (first try during this session) in a line. I had to watch the clip all week to believe it is true!
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Went to the local skatepark super disappointed that my son couldn't come with me got a bit frustrated landed a few things fakie front shove over the hip backside flip over the hip switch flip over the hip frontside flip over the hip nollie backside 360 over the hip a few switchback side 180s over the hip
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10 mins in, axel stall, lost balance, bailed, still landed on a runaway (kicked away) board, rolled my ankle, am hobbling now.
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Went for the first time to the local semi-DIY after a three week injury break. I was too excited and wanted too much, hence not much really worked. But got some nice no comply bigspins in the bank, so i won't complain too much...
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I went to skate the ledges on New Street in Edinburgh last night and it's been knobbed. Good times!
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I live in a tiny village in Hokkaido, my options for skate spots are incredibly limited. In Tokyo for two days and a night of family business with the in-laws from Honshu. I almost didn't bring my board, catching the bus from two prefectures over for two busy days with the family, I didn't want to drag my board and extra shoes around and maybe not have time/energy to skate anyway.
Came to my senses and brought my board and even though I was exhausted I dragged my carcass out later than I ever do anything these days (11:00pm haha) and I went city skating. It was fucking amazing.
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there is this grass gap that i want to nollie. its probably the equivalent of 6 or 7 stairs and with short run up. i have gotten so close so many times (over two sessions) but havent pulled it. but last nights session at it was better than my first so hopefully third times a charm.
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getting back into skating after a 5 year break and my seshes only last like an hour or so before i’m dusted. funny enough, it takes me half of that to feel warmed up :-/
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took a crucial one in a big bowl and bled everywhere. now i’m gonna be living in my car changing gauze constantly
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I went for a quick session before dawn and finally realized I could do all my tricks better when using the nose as tail. That tail is just too short for me. It‘s a DLX Dreamer shape. The board is at the end of its lifecycle now and I got a Muska lined up, the tail of which is huge like a shovel.
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I went to the local park and it was filled with kids and tweakers, so I went to a different park that's usually empty. I slammed hard in a bowl and fucked up my ribs AGAIN and broke my glasses, so I just gave up and went back to bed.
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I went to the local park and it was filled with kids and tweakers, so I went to a different park that's usually empty. I slammed hard in a bowl and fucked up my ribs AGAIN and broke my glasses, so I just gave up and went back to bed.
fuck.. I can relate. get well soon mate. and next time, just shred a parking lot.
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I went to the local park and it was filled with kids and tweakers, so I went to a different park that's usually empty. I slammed hard in a bowl and fucked up my ribs AGAIN and broke my glasses, so I just gave up and went back to bed.
fuck.. I can relate. get well soon mate. and next time, just shred a parking lot.
Lmao yeah I'll be skating the small stuff for a while.
Thanks dude.
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I went to the local park and it was filled with kids and tweakers, so I went to a different park that's usually empty. I slammed hard in a bowl and fucked up my ribs AGAIN and broke my glasses, so I just gave up and went back to bed.
Respect, have a gnar
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ate most of a large pizza then tried to sk8. not the worst sesh but was full so a lot of sitting. skating back and forth through a sea of fruit flies
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Ollie manual the sidewalk thing in middle of street.
Push up slight hill. Try to Ollie the three man hole covers in row. Make first one , tail scrape second. Don’t even try third. Push push push to GGP market. Buy some stuff to catch fade. Push push push back to three man hole covers. Push right by the manhole covers. Roll down slight hill. Swerve tail scrape. Push past manual thing. Ride through yellow bumps stop at front gate. Now inside house catching fade.
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Went out to ampys today for swim in lagoon and to skate the ledges, was with a mate but called another mate on way to see if he’s keen, he’s all ahh nah I can’t mate I’m in the hospital I just broke my wrist
So kinda off the whole thing from the start but went to the ambassador and got a steak and a couple jugs
Got like 30 mins and it starts pouring rain so we ran back up to the pub
Gave it like 30 and it was dry cause summer, went back haven’t skated much lately so just trying to work on basic grinds and shit but the homie got full smoked it was bad, he’s got those fakie ollie back tails or whatever you call em, like nollie noseslide but backwards anyway he got above the ledge and went across the top of the ledge in a fakie manual for half a second, did half a flip in the air and just lands on his wrist and head all twisted to shit, there were cunts watching us and they straight up left
I think it half knocked him out cause he was looking at me but he had this real gnarly look on his face like he couldn’t see me and then he was like trying to crawl away just groaning and shit
Thinking about just not skating again for a few months ahaha
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Only got to skate once this week. Warmed up with the usuals. Once warm I went for a frontside slappy on a low curb (I’m still learning these) and once the front truck hit I got pitched forward and ate shit.
Worked on some lipslide shit. Never flipped my board once. Damn I wish I could skate more (said every dad that skates and is over 40).
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Better than my last couple today, most of my stock flip tricks came 1st or 2nd try.
Spent a good chunk of the session working on inward and varial heels, slow progress on these, but can at least spin the tricks now.
Also banged out a few nice varial flips, genuinely becoming one of my favourite tricks these days, I'm glad they aren't as stigmatised as they used to be.
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couple back1 nosegrind 180s. a halfcab back smith. 3shuv fiddys. i love a good pissedoff sesh
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it was very nice
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Back at the small curb spot. Completely lost how to get into slappy fs crooks, got bodied on a fs tail slide, didn't land any bs blunt slides and snapped my board on a fs pop shuv. Good sesh.
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carabiner keychain thing broke
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BS slappy, FS slappy. Repeat. Until I jammed my big toe. Repeat anyway. Until my knee started hurting, probably from favoring said toe. Give it a few more minutes, then decide to call it.
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I went to my local curb spot there was a sesh in progress. Half of the crew was sitting on the best curb, and the other half of the crew was wildly flailing and bailing flatground tricks in front of the main curb with absolutely no awareness of lineups or being in the way of hitting the curb. Haha, good times...
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Been doing sessions with another 'older' dude early in the morning at like 9 am until noon. Take a big JBL speaker with us and the park is always empty. Great way to start the day. Tried to back 5-0 the entire curb (12ft or smth) a few times but didn't get it.
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I had a good session but the highlight was a slam. I was skating through a crowd of people sitting in the shade, did a kickflip to manual out of the shade in to the park and was holding it. The crowd was getting progressively stoked as I kept going, aiming to hold it until the bowl. I dropped my truck like half a millisecond too early and hung up. Luckily I caught the end of the transition in my fall so it was like a slide and I was completely unscathed. Pretty hilarious but deep down I’m kinda bummed I didn’t roll away. Hearing the crowd going from hyped to concerned, then laughing with me all in the span of 2 seconds was the best part.
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Got to the park early. 45 minutes later, a huge skate class started with kids everywhere. Wanted to skate the parking lot and wait it out but the parents and their other kids were sitting on everything skateable. Session over. Looked forward to skating all week long, too. No more Saturday morning sessions there, I guess.
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shouldve just politely asked them to move. nothing wrong with that
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It was lovely. Hopefully will get another one in today.
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i don’t fuckin know man
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did an ollie
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Went to Yonkers, skated the bump and the bank. Landed nollie back heel on the bank, landed Ollie and 180s in all stances, kickflip switchflip backside flip frontside flip nollie heel off the bump. Then I rushed home for my son's soccer practice.
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Went to Yonkers, skated the bump and the bank. Landed nollie back heel on the bank, landed Ollie and 180s in all stances, kickflip switchflip backside flip frontside flip nollie heel off the bump. Then I rushed home for my son's soccer practice.
Tankie on a bankie
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My friend and I set up pallets near a dumpster as a long manny pad last night.
It was fun. Finally got a decent frontside 180 switch manny switch back 180 out : ) I almost always tail drag those at the end <3
P.s. the pallets were returned as we found them scouts honor
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I had a relatively good session with my new deck yesterday. I worked on a line starting with a kickflip up a curb, followed by a flatground heelflip and then kickflip down the same curb (my flip game is ridiculous). Anyway I got the kickflip almost every time (albeit rockety) and was close to landing the heelflip as well but then all of a sudden I made a wrong step on my back foot, didn't even slam or twist it, it just hurt in my heel and the session was over. It still hurts today and I can't skate even though I am on holidays and the sun is out.
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Was having a really good day. Finally learned front smiths on ledges, then I rolled the fuck out of my ankle doing a 5050. Dues have been paid. Hoping I can skate this weekend.
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Forgetting how to kickflip is the worst. Threw me off completely so I just went home.
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On a juice cleanse this week. It's got me feeling all weird. Went on a night cruise through the neighborhood and felt like I got a runners high, or maybe I just need to eat. Idk, shit was tight.
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Forgetting how to kickflip is the worst. Threw me off completely so I just went home.
Same.
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It was lovely. Hopefully will get another one in today.
come to annvan
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Found a new curb, it’s yellow and at a nice angle. Something clicked today and I started getting my bs slap krooked grinds to lock in nicely. I got a couple that felt like butter but then my son got stung by something and we bailed.
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I got the nicest bs 50/50 ever today on a very low stairstep. I struggled forever with those but I guess it helped that I got better at bs 180s and Bs slappies lately.
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I learned another fly out of the bowl I skate. Bs 180 nose grab. Maybe someday I'll get it 360. Anyway the nosegrab 180 is really fun.
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It was lovely. Hopefully will get another one in today.
come to annvan
ima pull up tomorrow shroomin
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My car broke down on my way home from the skate session the other day and I had skate like 4 miles home. Was fun because 3 of those miles were downhill smooth bike path. The last mile is all steep uphill. Wouldve walked but the street was just repaved so I skated up it in record time, alternating feet for pushing so I didn’t get too tired.
Incredible workout.
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I rub bricked another section of curb the day before so I started out by sweeping off the dust from that since I didn't have my big push broom before. Sprayed a good layer of lacquer over it and went to mess around on the other section while it dried.
Went back to spray another layer and a cop car came pulling into the parking lot right in front of me. I put the can in my cargo pocket and skated away from the curb. Lucky for me, I was wearing one of my old US Navy association shirts to skate in and my car has a veteran license plate. No police lights, nothing. They just turned back around and left me alone.
I finished the second coat and skated some more then went home after spraying a third coat.
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My last skate sesh was 3 weeks ago tomorrow, and it was going so well. myself and the homie were going off right up to the point where I broke my ankle. Now i'm counting down the days til i can roll around again. Haven't gone this long off board since spring of 2018 i think, so my desire to skate is through the roof
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Finally did a nose manual longer than 3 feet... managed a PB of about 16ft. The level of concentration vs a regular manual is insane.
Got kinda locked into that and didn't end up doing much else, but it was pretty gratifying.
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i get that kickflip back tails are easier than regular back tails and a less classy trick overall but all that aside ive been working on them on and off for a while. spent a couple hours today and got like 3 or 4. then after some lady pulled into the spot looking for her lost dog
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Skating once a month or so in my 40's is really catching up. I wouldn't ollie over knee high bench although I'm sure I can do it relatively easy :( Felt rather pathetic..
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Landed a flatground inward heel and almost got a fakie one. Landed a front heel over the hip for the first time.
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Tried switch fs popshuv to fakie nose manual for a while on the manual curb. Nose scrape city :(I’m in the back seat:( Tomorrow think I’ll try them to fakie manual instead see if I can get on top of it better.
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Pushed a little... Did a couple tic tacs. First time on a board in well over a year.
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had some fun skating a tight little kidney bowl at an indoor skatepark. got some nice speed, fs coping slashes, bs tile rides in the deeper part felt good.
then because I was supposed to be working on a paper, I pushed around town and skated these ledges that start low and have a higher drop. They're concrete and haven't been rub bricked in a long time, so they skated like shit. Almost had a few bs board slides into the street. At the same spot, I was messing with some 180 boneless over a 4 foot flat gap to tail stall one a hip high block. did a little hill bomb to the center of town where the streets were closed for an event and kept riding under the police barriers (too high for a hippy jump). Skated around the center a few times before pushing back to my car. Driving home I saw that the outdoor park was empty and since the sun was out and I had a paper to write, I pulled over and pushed around for a bit. Had fun carving the janky snake bowl thing. Ended up doing a pair of moving splits while trying to 5050 the long box after skating more than I have in a really, really long time. Riding splits sucks and really mess with the inner front groin. At least I had fun and got some good body work done when I got home ;D ;)
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good day at the spot. still gotta find a wallie thing
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Got real close to roll away from a switch pop shuv to 50/50 on a ridiculously low curb. Also, bs 50/50s on the same curb are getting more and more comfy.
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I didn’t have a bad sesh per se, but I filmed some shit I like doing and when I saw the footage I wasn’t really feeling it… not easy to look good on the board at 42
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Had a really good session at my local. Tried doing noseblunts on a butter box and landed two but they weren't locked in all the way. On the third attempt I came at a sharper angle and tried to really lock it in but slipped out and crunched my ankle with a popping noise. I've been out for three weeks this Wednesday giving it a rest.
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Had a really good session at my local. Tried doing noseblunts on a butter box and landed two but they weren't locked in all the way. On the third attempt I came at a sharper angle and tried to really lock it in but slipped out and crunched my ankle with a popping noise. I've been out for three weeks this Wednesday giving it a rest.
What a shame, hope you‘ll get well soon.
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It was lovely. Hopefully will get another one in today.
come to annvan
ima pull up tomorrow shroomin
damn I'm late too seeing these but thank you for the invite guys. I've actually never skated AnnVan. Lots of my buddies like it so I'm hoping to change that soon.
My last session (or last two) kind of weren't my most fun. I'm someone who needs to skate 3-4 times a week for my legs to be feeling normal. Had two busy work weeks back to back and in between those I spent a weekend visiting family so not much skating. Yesterday, I went to a skate park really early and there was a whole gang of roller bladers (like 20 or something) which was kind of neat because I can't remember the last time I saw roller bladers. They waxed a lot of things so I didn't really skate much of the ledges. I took my cruiser out and had fun just doing my normal/warm up go to's on an odd shape. Even on the days your legs don't feel normal it's still the best. Skateboarding is fun.
I agree with this statement from snake
Every sesh are a good moment, even the bad ones
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that time was my first time and it was a fuckin blast. make the trip if/when you can.
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I was recently fucking around on a little embankment in the shitty little town I’m staying in looking after my sick sister. Some groms walked up and seemed hyped on skating. We rolled around together for a bit and before I left I gave them my current set up. It was still fresh but I figured “Fuck it, winters coming up…. might as well stoke out the kids” I’ve been depressed and not hyped on anything lately so it was rad to see them light up. Feels good to pass on the stoke. Hopefully they stick with it. I’ll piece together another one. And yes, I was riding a KA Craig board. It’d be rad if just one person reading this would do something along the same lines, even if it’s just a set of used wheels or trucks. Passing on the stoke is priceless.
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twilight carve and slash
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1st day after a few days of rain. early morning i swept the spot clear of wet leaves and broke my shitty dollar store broom. evening sesh though. anyway this elderly man who lives across the street from the spot has a gf so i was stoked for him
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The city opened a new skatepark so the street spot/plaza I usually skate cleared out of kids and randos. For an old dude like me, it's quite nice.
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powersliding through leaves yesterday and today. touched a squirrel today so im stoked
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Broke my board doing a fakie tre. It was good to land it, I hadn't landed one in a long time, like 10 years.
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wiped myself out on a nollie FS bigspin, you know those bails where you go to put a foot on the floor but you end up back on the board instead... fun times!
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All the dudes at the spot were goin crazy today and it was super sick to watch. I was not going crazy, but I also landed my first board slide (at the ripe old age of 26 and on a parking block...)
I also donate a tonne of gear to the skateshop, and I think I had my first experience of seeing something I donated out in the wild. Little homie was rippin on a set of 58 og classics that looked familiar and it warmed my cold heart.
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Slipped out on a patch of wet asphalt and tore my pants on a very nearly stylish manual turnaround maneuver. Also scratched through to the axle on my back truck
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yolandis broom
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I missed about 100 front tail bigspins, and then laid in the pond for about an hour in the dark.
Pond has no water, it’s the skate spot.
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Skated a fresh 9” pop, down from a 9.75” shape I stuck with way too long. Steep(or non sogged-out-flat) tail hurt my knee and new grip was scary. Just an old guy muttering to himself and laughing.
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hippie jump mannys
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brought a setup to the laundromat and seshed a bench that was sticking out under a pile of trash bags
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I left the motorcycle festival in Birmingham and skated the small park north of Tuscaloosa on Saturday. Got a little line in on the hip, quarter pipe, and the flatbar. My stamina's basically gone but it felt good that I can still skate like that after I warm up. I ate some pizza with a few of the locals before I headed onto my friend's house.
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Practiced transition tricks on the mini qp at ossining, actually landed a half cab crook on the small ledge
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actually bothering with heelflips which is rare
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left my phone in the grass bc i dont like it in my pocket. Its a basketball court in the suburbs, usually I'm there alone.
some dad came with his kid they were just learning how to push around and stuff. Then i saw them leave real suddenly and I thought i might have done something to piss them off or something so I kept skating.
When i was leaving saw my phone screen cracked to hell. One of them definitely shot the board out onto precisely the spot where my phone was and dipped before I realized. :(
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local pro came thru the park i was skating solo for a lil sundown sesh. mutual shredding occured
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went to the spot I usually skate alone and 4 other separate people showed up to skate. had the 2 dudes in full pads/helmet doing slappy board slides with rails on their cruisers and their girl on roller-skates who was too high to do anything (she kept saying she was high). Some dude in really skinny jeans and pumas showed up, did a bunch of runner stretches, and some cool manual variations. some other dude showed up with a big ass board and was ollieing a trashcan (a metal one on its side) with me. I asked him the wheel base of this big ass board because he was popping pretty high and he said "I don't know. 10? I like the way it looked." It was then I realized that SLAP is not the real world.
Cool session though. even though we weren't shredders, everyone was landing whatever the were trying and the hype was mutual. I don't have the skills I used to have and it's kind of weird skating with people my age or younger who I don't know and who are rippers when I'm trying to get my basics back. shit was wicked fun though
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went to the spot I usually skate alone and 4 other separate people showed up to skate. had the 2 dudes in full pads/helmet doing slappy board slides with rails on their cruisers and their girl on roller-skates who was too high to do anything (she kept saying she was high). Some dude in really skinny jeans and pumas showed up, did a bunch of runner stretches, and some cool manual variations. some other dude showed up with a big ass board and was ollieing a trashcan (a metal one on its side) with me. I asked him the wheel base of this big ass board because he was popping pretty high and he said "I don't know. 10? I like the way it looked." It was then I realized that SLAP is not the real world.
Cool session though. even though we weren't shredders, everyone was landing whatever the were trying and the hype was mutual. I don't have the skills I used to have and it's kind of weird skating with people my age or younger who I don't know and who are rippers when I'm trying to get my basics back. shit was wicked fun though
“It was then I realized that SLAP is not the real world” - Awesome
I took yesterday off and hit two different parks. This was cool to me because I’m usually doing my shitty skateboarding solo in a parking lot with curbs. The first park was fun to warm up at (I was the only one there) but there were shady dudes sitting in their trucks watching and it was kind of weird. I had the second park to myself for about 45 minutes. A couple of dudes showed up who were cool as fuck and we shot the shit and skated. Great day to be a skateboarder.
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some flat. got outta there in time as a massive cloud of stone saw dust was looming in from down the street
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Went to the new Torrance park for the first time and ended up eating shit and bruising my palm on the tiniest hubba you could imagine. Initially couldn't figure out why i couldn't land my go-to's and didn't remember until after i drove off that my baseplate bolts were loose so thats why my trucks felt all crazy. also slipped out and hit my head for the first time in forever which wasn't exactly fun.
spent the last 30 minutes at the park skating flat with my friends and that ended up being super fun and finished the session on a high note.
post-sesh we went to a 7-eleven to get bev and saw some dude casually walking around with a Jason mask, that was pretty interesting
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Landed my first ever nollie fs heel
Did some bs 360s.
My car is broke so flatground in the street is the best I can manage.
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Last session was yesterday (then started feeling sick and was sick all day today)….but it was an interesting session.
It was my first session without social media. A couple weeks ago I finally deleted my facebook account after years of frequently disabling it temporarily. For the next couple weeks I found myself wondering, often, why I was sticking with Instagram. Talking with my wife about it, I wondered out-loud, “do I skate to put up YouTube and Insta clips, or do I skate because I enjoy it?” I think I knew the answer to my question, because I don’t have IRL skate homies so I skate mostly alone, occasionally with my daughter on blades, and once with a random but really cool SLAP homie and his girl who were passing through…..but yeah, I know I get stoked by digital homies. But one other thing was on my mind….
In an important-to-me thread right here on SLAP, someone mentioned that depressed people shouldn’t have social media. I do struggle with mild depression and I couldn’t get that idea out of my head for many months. So I finally blew it all up a few days ago. All YouTube vids deleted, Instagram account deleted. This SLAP forum is all that is left of my “social media”.
So my last session was a *little* weird, knowing I couldn’t share my improvement, or my slams, in the usual fashion, but like I said, I do know why I skate, and my last session was more of the same: a loud PHEW! after a sketchy land, and of course a heavy dose of stoke after a solid line.
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Last session was yesterday (then started feeling sick and was sick all day today)….but it was an interesting session.
It was my first session without social media. A couple weeks ago I finally deleted my facebook account after years of frequently disabling it temporarily. For the next couple weeks I found myself wondering, often, why I was sticking with Instagram. Talking with my wife about it, I wondered out-loud, “do I skate to put up YouTube and Insta clips, or do I skate because I enjoy it?” I think I knew the answer to my question, because I don’t have IRL skate homies so I skate mostly alone, occasionally with my daughter on blades, and once with a random but really cool SLAP homie and his girl who were passing through…..but yeah, I know I get stoked by digital homies. But one other thing was on my mind….
In an important-to-me thread right here on SLAP, someone mentioned that depressed people shouldn’t have social media. I do struggle with mild depression and I couldn’t get that idea out of my head for many months. So I finally blew it all up a few days ago. All YouTube vids deleted, Instagram account deleted. This SLAP forum is all that is left of my “social media”.
So my last session was a *little* weird, knowing I couldn’t share my improvement, or my slams, in the usual fashion, but like I said, I do know why I skate, and my last session was more of the same: a loud PHEW! after a sketchy land, and of course a heavy dose of stoke after a solid line.
I feel you mate. Although I always got stoked to see some ripping from your insta, I understand your reasoning behind it. You are a big fucking inspiration to me personally, that you started skating with 50 years young and took some heavy slams. Keep your head up and enjoy the simple things in life. You have it really good with a wife, a daughter and a backyard ramp, never forget that. Much love and keep the stoke up!
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Does skating from bar to bar doing the occasional kick flip count as a session? If so, I had a great session last Saturday. The hills in Seattle are no joke, though.
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Sounds like you did more tricks than I do during some of my sessions. It def counts.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7XG1DJRDVM
this was me skating fdr today. i’m jj marvin obv
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Went to my local skatepark and skated flatground pretty much the whole time...I was that guy.
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I just moved a couple weeks ago and the park closest to my house is the best worst park I think I’ve ever seen. 3 of those really shitty plastic quarterpipes and a pyramid/rail thing to match that’s virtually unskateable.
But then there’s a decent flat bar and a ton of curbs/manny pads/bigger curbs that slide and are actually really awesome. Especially because I’ve been wanting to learn slappies lately, never did them when I was younger and I guess now is the time.
Took my 2 1/2 year old with an old deck he likes to “skate,” and he was entertained running around long enough to let me get in a decent session and do my first backside slappy, which was embarrassingly satisfying.
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Went to an out of town skatepark not feeling my legs at all, while warming up I try to manual/nose manual the empty manny pad unsuccessfully, right after that a couple of locals make a lot of combos, one even bouncing a fucking tennis ball while switch nosemanual. Was feeling kinda vibed out and pretty down about my skating, when some other local ask me to play a game of SKATE to warm up. Ended up playing flatground, ledge tricks and tricks on obstacles, had a really good time and also made a new skate friend which is not usual for me.
Later on went to buy some skate stuff from the driver of the first Nike SB tour around here, he gave me a shirt and a deck both used by koston, still don't know if I should skate it or not. Also told me some crazy stories about the tour, and how everyone was really nice, treating him(who doesn't skate or even speak English) like one of them.
Felt really good about skateboarding at the end of the day
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I broke in my new deck which was good but ate shit three times and now my ankle, wrist and both palms hurt.
I also made a skate friend which is kinda cool but feels weird as I usually skate alone and am fully focused on the stuff I am trying. This does not work with friends as you have to talk to them from time to time but as I am old if I talk five minutes my legs are cold again and I am not in the zone anymore. On the other hand it‘s nice to nerd out about skate stuff, of course.
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mellow sesh. touched a squirrels tail
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Completely demolished myself on a switch pop shove that decided to flip 1/4 of the way right as I caught it. Managed to fuck up an ankle, a knee, and a wrist all at once
Finally figured out backside slappy crooks. What a nice feeling trick
Even Steven I guess
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I skated a little ditch under a highway. It was fun, but coming off two separate rib injuries still has me spooked so I had to keep reminding myself to stop being timid.
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aired over a guy for the first time ever
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Landed a switch frontside flip for the first time in ages, and a nollie frontside flip, then cracked my board trying a nollie backside flip, had to skate the rest of the session on ramp on a mini quarter pipe because anything else would break my board all the way and I had no replacement
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runaway dog mid sesh. finding miko. who was found
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Been in El Paso for three weeks working every single day but today’s my bday and I was determined to get a sesh in as a little gift to myself.
I went to northeast skatepark and was getting vibed out by 16 year olds with shake junt grip. They were going full demo mode and barging through the park to Ollie of a bank over a cone. One kid made it. One of them asked about my board, so I let him try it but didn’t say shit about how loose my trucks were, and as soon as he threw down he almost instantly got wheel bite and got pitched. After that I said, “shit sorry dude, the trucks are kinda loose.”
But despite I skated pretty well. At the park they’ve got an absolutely fucked bowl that was really fun. I hit tile in the deepend with the pool coping and I’m insanely proud of that shit and telling everyone who will hear it.
Here’s a video of the trucks for reference (excuse my dirty ass hands I went straight from work to the park). As well as a video I took of the bowl, I added like 15 seconds of my favorite spazz song to it to cover up the sound of me breathing like Tony Soprano eating cold cuts.
https://youtube.com/shorts/F-sr30S3kD4?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/qv8gVqQhPyc?feature=share
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“yeah my wife was fuckin this other dude and he beat the shit out of me” is not info id volunteer to strangers…
i do appreciate when people put on dance/fun music instead of having to listen to black flag AGAIN tho
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Skated the worst park in Salt Lake City at 8am on a Sunday and it was fun being alone.
Going to Denver to watch the Broncos lose for my brothers 30th birthday and made sure the AirBnB is next to Denver Park. Fucking love that place.
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Rain stopped for a few hours yesterday, and insane cyclone winds whipped through. This dried everything out quickly, but skating in gusting 20-30mph wind, changing directions every few seconds, was extremely difficult. Got a frontside slasher on the biggest wall though. Ankle is bruised from rolling it a few weeks ago, but it's feeling better. Lotta Theraband stretching has helped.
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both.
at the same time
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Skated my driveway in between rainstorms. I just set up my new Chris Roberts twin tail but I couldn't use it because of the weather. I had to use my rainy day board The one with the chipped nose and tail and the 60 mm wheels. I was surprised to be able to do all my flat ground tricks on that thing. I cracked it on a nollie backside heel flip, but not all the way through.
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My local skatepark is flow based. I went full speed approaching the deep end corners, as a kid drops in right in my line and cuts me off. I started shouting at him getting pretty pissed.
I would've annihilated him had we run in to each other. I'm about 100 kg's (loosing weight though) and he was made of sticks..
Moral of the story, I am getting old..
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rained out. the last few seshes were good tho
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Showed up to my Sunday spot, empty which is perfect. 10 minutes in another fella rolls up who I’ve seen once or twice, mentions 3-4 of his mates are gonna show up at some point. Went off to get water and these guys had arrived, typical Sunday session.
One of these guys pulled out a jump ramp from his car, gave that a try, couldn’t stick it.
Learned switch slappy nose slides and ended up with bleeding heels thanks to some new shoes.
Best halloween skate I’ve ever had
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Did three stationary flat ground kick flips, took three laps without popping my board, attempted a no comply 180, didn’t land it, felt a strange drop in my blood sugar, complained about my job to a local, a freakishly talented guy casually did an NBD, I felt like I was going to pass out, got in my truck after a grand total of maybe half an hour, and drove home. Overall rating 3/10
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Lots of leafs in the park. Went to the neighboring café and borrowed a broom. Swept the leafs to the side. Didn’t bother to get them out of there. Almost did a 360 flip. Did land a couple of kick flips that felt pretty solid though.
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Ahh, and started out with a nice cup of coffee..
Lots of leafs in the park. Went to the neighboring café and borrowed a broom. Swept the leafs to the side. Didn’t bother to get them out of there. Almost did a 360 flip. Did land a couple of kick flips that felt pretty solid though.
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Drove to a kinda deece park in a nearby town. Some cretins had smashed some bricks there. Picked up the bigger chunks and gave it a go, but didn’t stay long. Hit a super crusty diy spot and a middling crusty “park” on the way home and finished up at my favorite curb. Oh, and saw a hobo fort made of 3 kickers and a space blanket.
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I ended my session with a belly flop nut slam on the ground. I hit them shits like wazzup, Blaow!
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chipped my ride in 2 places. which wasnt the plan because although i sk8 my boards far past the point where others would set up a freshie its not like i was trying to chip it or anything at least yet. didnt snap thankfully
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Had a satisfying slappy session with good fs and bs 50/50s and even a fs 50/50 nollie fs shuv out. A first for me 8)
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Skated my driveway and listened to silent majority. Smooth session, everything went down easy
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I rode around looking for dry ditches and didn't find any
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redo fkn everything from today. annoyed. what a worthless day it was
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It was raining and all indoor parks were closed on Sunday. Se me and my friends went to a parking garage got kicked out in 15 minutes. Then we went to another one which we got kicked out as well and then another and surprisingly got kicked out. Was out skating for 3 hours and got to skate for an hour. That was a shitty Sunday.
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Last session was at the end of September. Had a sore throat before, sweated a bunch and got pneumonia. Spent nearly a month in bed at home, going back to work now but no sports for god knows how long... I guess the outdoor skateseason of 2021 is more or less over for me now.
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Fucked around for a while and then decided to try and learn nollie nosegrind on a tiny curb, I've never done one and always wanted to.
Took about an hour and by the time I finally got one I was so frustrated and exhausted that I felt nothing but relief it was over, kind of a bummer.
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Dead grip on both board and shoes. Missed a few ollies. Slipped out bluntsliding a curb. Went home with a fully charged inferiorty complex.
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too stoned but i still slashed
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is good
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Went to the park and it was really crowded. I've been plagued by injuries this summer. Including some really bad ankle shit. It was frustrating to be fucking up kickflips and bs180s but I got steady after about 45 min warm up. Had fun just cruising around and popping backside ollies and shit
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As someone from a town with no good skateparks around, I don't skate transition often. Went to a newly opened indoor and after 1.5 years of putting it off I finally managed to drop in on a quarter. Also almost landed a heelflip out of a bank while I can barely scrape one together on flat so I'm gonna ride on this pink cloud for a while now.
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Got smoked skating a tall and steep 10 rail at the skatepark
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Started the session feeling like the shit. Ended it because I felt like shit. Gonna get a little looser with my diet pre morning session
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Lost my tree skating virginity (broken tree laying down, branch acting as a bonk, flatbar thing) shit was dope
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did a varial heelflip first try, landed in a lil manual but put the front wheels on the ground instantly, thought it might have looked kinda steezy and it made me feel good. i used to suck at front shuv stuff but a homie told me to try his foot placement and they clicked instantly, then i got varial heelflips soon after but lost them 2 or 3 weeks ago when i switched to a new deck, but they’re coming back and i’m hyped.
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First time skating last night after 2 months off for an ankle injury. One of those injuries that makes you worry it'll never be the same. Did 10 minutes of basic flat ground in a dark, wet parking lot by myself just to make sure it still works. It was fucking great.
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Last night, went out for a bit of a grind.
Felt ultra stiff and that did not change. Did maybe 15 tricks but just felt too stiff.
Might be going to chiropractor soon to crack me everywhere: back, neck, hips , legs.
I feel "compressed" if that makes sense
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canines
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Skated a cool little wooden bowl and almost lost my front hanger twice.
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Shitty weather last Sunday but got a last minute invite to skate two indoor garage minis, which was a nice change. I don't often skate the old back and fore halfpipe scenario anymore and it forced me to try some tricks. Also falling on wood doesn't really hurt. Too much old man talk-boarding but I'll take it.
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Took my son down the local after work, park was empty we got about an hr and a half in before dark. He’s just starting out. Helped him with rolling down the banks ect and I messed around on the small ledge there in between while he rolled around. Then worked on my flat ground for the last half hr while he learns ollies. Couldn’t ask for a better chilled afternoon really.
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did a varial heelflip first try, landed in a lil manual but put the front wheels on the ground instantly, thought it might have looked kinda steezy and it made me feel good. i used to suck at front shuv stuff but a homie told me to try his foot placement and they clicked instantly, then i got varial heelflips soon after but lost them 2 or 3 weeks ago when i switched to a new deck, but they’re coming back and i’m hyped.
Please share the foot placement secret, my front shuvs are booty
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did a varial heelflip first try, landed in a lil manual but put the front wheels on the ground instantly, thought it might have looked kinda steezy and it made me feel good. i used to suck at front shuv stuff but a homie told me to try his foot placement and they clicked instantly, then i got varial heelflips soon after but lost them 2 or 3 weeks ago when i switched to a new deck, but they’re coming back and i’m hyped.
back foot in the pocket, front foot near the bolts with toes hanging off. just watch reynolds or dollin. i bring my front foot back a little farther back if i am doing it on flat just to make the flip happen a little faster.
yesterday 9:00am i get to this new DIY i heard a rumour about. Tip was extremely vague but I found it. DM'd my friend the address and hopped over the fence to check it out while i waited for him. Pretty sick little spot, Bank to Wall thing you can do stalls on, sketchy kicker, polejam, a parking curb on flat, one on cinder blocks, and a pretty tall flat bar. slashed a few boardslides and then jumped the fence again to meet my friend. I noticed the fence was pretty sketchy at the top, it was very sharp. I am a pretty springy motherfucker so i handled it pretty easily but i was worried my friend might hurt his ankle trying to jump from that height cause he is quite a bit heavier than me.
anyway i brought him there and he seemed to hnadle it no problem and i actually felt a lot better climbing it with him there knowing my board wont fall over the other side kind of thing. right as soon as we get over, a cop pulls right up. somehow does not seem to notice us thorugh some stroke of luck. my friend doesnt even notice and is still blabbing away telling a story lmao. so we got set up and skate for about 30 min and im starting to get some 5050s down and putting a little line together.
all of a sudden i just hear my friend yelling over at the fence at a security guard and then the security guard yellin hes gonna call the cops. fuck. so im like alright well lets just dip man no sense in arguing hes like yep true so we just grab our shit and go. my friend is kinda rushing becusae he brought os much damn shit over the fence full on backpack and has all his smokes out and shit all over the ground... im already back at the fence by the time he starts walking. i start climbing and then i notice its super super wet now and slippery. i kind of just wanted to get the fuck out of there asap even though the security guard seemed to be cool about us leaving. i try to climb fence first try and i kind of got sketched out and jumped back down and put down my coat. 2nd try i just said fuck it and put my feet up on the top spikes and just jumped down instead of trying to lower myself slowly. luckily my ankles were totally fine and handled the impact no problem. my friend is strugling to get over though.... he doesnt want to jump and he tries to just climb over... bad idea. tears his hand pretty badly and im like fuck thats a lot of blood and run and get my car after putting his hand in a shirt. security guy takes pics of my friend then just takes off!!! fucken asshole!
so i get back a min later and actually seems like its not too badly bleeding so im like aight lets just go to the pharmacy get it cleaned up and bandaged. seems to be fine and then we decide to continue on with the day of skating. turns out 2 homeys are going to meet us at this new park. pick up some timmy's and some beers and get to that park ~12.
session was really dope this park is super chill. my friend just moved back from BC and he is skating really good for 33 years old. kcikflipped over this barrel off a kicker almost every try and almost got fs flip over it. did a really nice fs flip over this super steep hip!! i got this super long fs 5050 through a curve, was probably like 20 feet of grindage. i got a heelflip manny cruising super fast 1st try and a nice nollie bs 5050 i was hyped on too. was just a real chill session everyone seemed to be ripping and then another crew of 4 skaters showed up of younger guys that i know in the area who are kinda up and coming. the 1 guy really put down, really nice bs tail 270 shove out hard way (fs) and a heelflip back tail. lots of nice shit from him was basically a demo. started to wind down a bit and just chill then my friend who hurt his hand slipped out and re - opened his cut lol luckily wasnt too bad again had to get it cleaned up and bandaged up again then chilled on sakting the rest of the day. super tired today but miht go skate soon at lunch
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Vetereans day early morning session at a newer park. I had it to myself for an hour so I cruised around (after picking up trash the night crew left for about ten minutes, that was lame) and actually got some fs and bs 5050s and 50s on transition…a first for me. A few older dudes rolled up and were super cool. A few younger dudes showed up and they were cool. Good vibes all around. Tried to start a run with a kickflip and jacked up my heel. On my way out I was headed to the porta-shitter to take a leak and an old guy cut me off about five feet from it. After verbally assaulting him for being an asshole, I left. Heel still hurts. Never got a kickflip but oh well.
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day trip to nyc
owls head: fun, full of vibing dorks in brooklyn attire who can’t axle stall, saw a guy in a duane peters shirt
fat kid: fun, full of downtown brooklyn millionaire children
skating mccaren really stoned in the dark: fun, scary
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Went to 2nd Nature because it was raining landed most of my stuff with a bit more sketch than I would have preferred. I came so close to a long kickflip Bs noseslide on the box then I left for my son's vaccine appointment... maybe next time...
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wallrides. wallride grab
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Had one of those 45 minute extremely productive ones that are rare when you're my age. Really cemented my confidence in 360 flipping 8.5+ boards and felt very in control of my kickflips.
It's getting colder and wetter here in Michigan so I was stuck in the local parking garage, but the place is absolutely bust free. Got a ledge, manual pad, and slappy curb all there... just dusty, dirty, and cold.
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Chill sesh in the driveway, I have a primo bruise on the inside of my left foot so I avoided flip tricks. As I skated a severe thunderstorm was approaching so I used my rainy day setup. The conditions were strange, I was fine wearing shorts and a t-shirt in NY in November.
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I had looked forward all week to a session at my new slappy curb and bank spot but it had rained in the night and with the cloud the ground never dried. So I had to retreat to my secret covered hide out with the roll on curb and got two new tricks on that one. Not so bad after all.
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ledge spot. snowed after about an hour
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Solo session at the Ikea parking lot. Filled some cracks in the curbs with quick concrete. I hope that shit will last.
Just did all my basics for 2 hours.
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rolled around a local park, didn't feel as good as my last session there. maybe just an off day or it was dark.
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drove one hour (which is quite a distance here in Germany) to skate a slappy curb at a supermarket parking lot. Best session in ages.
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I skated my secret rain spot. Made progress on 360 flips. Didn‘t land one but thanks to Slap trick tips I feel I am starting to get the rotation right.
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Had a banging session after school and before work yesterday. My flatground was on fire.
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I went to ossining trying to learn half cab crooked grind I did not succeed but locked into a few good ones. My flatground worked out well, my primo bruise has healed.
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some flat. then hippie jump manny back slappy. didnt see 1 squirrel
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did a halfcab flip on a bank so landed back to fakie. cool feeling to do it that way. also did a switch front heel over an a frame.
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Last skated a couple days ago. Finally learned switch flips then went to a skatepark I never visit and had a good time. Haven’t been able to walk properly since which I’m assuming means I used new muscles so I’m stoked
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did some errands then went to a ledge spot. it was a lot more windy than other places because its between high rises. i just wasnt feeling it after hours of running around which is a bummer because theres probably like 1 or 2 more clips i wanna get before im done with the current board and winter really starts. not that im not sk8ing during the winter or anything. weathers been wack lately like 1 good day then 2 shit days in a row repeat sigh
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Went to the DIY but didn't really skate brought my son with me and he wanted to explore some of the surrounding areas. Then went to the parking garage landed on my flat ground stuff got a few nice grinds on the ledge there.
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Skated down some stairs (5) for the first time since I rolled my ankle and probably did the best kickflip I've ever done down a set first t. It sucked right up to my feet and felt perfect. Slipped out like four times on hardflip but plan on reclaiming that one soon.
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Skated down some stairs (5) for the first time since I rolled my ankle and probably did the best kickflip I've ever done down a set first t. It sucked right up to my feet and felt perfect. Slipped out like four times on hardflip but plan on reclaiming that one soon.
Did you get clips? I like to see a nice kickflip down a set. My record is two stairs, but who knows I might go for a three stair when I find a nice one.
My session was two hours of slappies interrupted by a quick session in a shitty park with an insanely high flatbar. I shouldn‘t have tried but I am magically attracted to flatbars. Ate shit, hurt my wrist, went back to the curb where I should have stayed in the first place.
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Skated down some stairs (5) for the first time since I rolled my ankle and probably did the best kickflip I've ever done down a set first t. It sucked right up to my feet and felt perfect. Slipped out like four times on hardflip but plan on reclaiming that one soon.
Did you get clips? I like to see a nice kickflip down a set. My record is two stairs, but who knows I might go for a three stair when I find a nice one.
My session was two hours of slappies interrupted by a quick session in a shitty park with an insanely high flatbar. I shouldn‘t have tried but I am magically attracted to flatbars. Ate shit, hurt my wrist, went back to the curb where I should have stayed in the first place.
Nah, I was just messing around trying to get my legs used to stairs again. Kind of a spur of the moment hit as I was feeling good on the sesh. Didn't start filming until I started trying hardflip. You got that shit though, if you can catch them halfway decent then you got one down a bigger set for sure.
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Skated down some stairs (5) for the first time since I rolled my ankle and probably did the best kickflip I've ever done down a set first t. It sucked right up to my feet and felt perfect. Slipped out like four times on hardflip but plan on reclaiming that one soon.
Did you get clips? I like to see a nice kickflip down a set. My record is two stairs, but who knows I might go for a three stair when I find a nice one.
My session was two hours of slappies interrupted by a quick session in a shitty park with an insanely high flatbar. I shouldn‘t have tried but I am magically attracted to flatbars. Ate shit, hurt my wrist, went back to the curb where I should have stayed in the first place.
Nah, I was just messing around trying to get my legs used to stairs again. Kind of a spur of the moment hit as I was feeling good on the sesh. Didn't start filming until I started trying hardflip. You got that shit though, if you can catch them halfway decent then you got one down a bigger set for sure.
Cheers bro!
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Had a really good sesh with some homies today. We turned a local bench spot into a sort of modular skate park with our flat bars and a box we brought there. I've found kickflips aren't coming easy for me anymore lately but I'm stoked my treflips are getting more consistent and I'm figuring out heelflips.
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2nd day on a new board that I’ve been enjoying. Went to noseslide this little box, and a screw on the angle iron dug into my nose and cut a huge gouge 2 layers deep. I’m really weird about how my boards wear in, and this just ruined my whole day. Also hit axle on my 2 month old ventures. Was kind of cool the first time I did it, but it’s gonna be a problem if I keep blowing through trucks like this.
In more positive news, I’ve been trying to relearn back tails and back smiths for a solid 2 years, and finally got some this weekend. Never thought I’d do another one.
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2nd day on a new board that I’ve been enjoying. Went to noseslide this little box, and a screw on the angle iron dug into my nose and cut a huge gouge 2 layers deep. I’m really weird about how my boards wear in, and this just ruined my whole day. Also hit axle on my 2 month old ventures. Was kind of cool the first time I did it, but it’s gonna be a problem if I keep blowing through trucks like this.
In more positive news, I’ve been trying to relearn back tails and back smiths for a solid 2 years, and finally got some this weekend. Never thought I’d do another one.
The screw thing would drive me nuts too, but it will be forgotten as soon as the board is well worn. Stoked that you got the back tails and back smiths, I can only dream of those.
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went to an indoor park that was practically empty when i got there (one scooter, two rollerskaters that were practicing slalom in the corner). i front boarded the whole flat bar a couple of times, that felt really good because i suck at sliding backwards.
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went to an indoor park that was practically empty when i got there (one scooter, two rollerskaters that were practicing slalom in the corner). i front boarded the whole flat bar a couple of times, that felt really good because i suck at sliding backwards.
Unlocking front boards was the best feeling for me.
Skated the park last night for like 90 minutes. Had to put brand new trucks on cuz mine exploded in the cold on Saturday night. Breaking in trucks didn’t suck as much as I remember.
Did my go to tricks for a bit, and then tried kick nose manny for like an hour. Told myself I’d do one before the end of the year, but fuck me i cannot figure out how to flip into that shit.
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high rise spot is more like something between a ledge and a curb. windy chilly day so went to another ledge spot. it hasnt snowed enough to cover the ground this year yet but theyve thrown a bit of rock salt around. annoyed but spend a few minutes sweeping it away with my foot. sk8 that for a bit. zero warmup do a front fiddy then do front fiddy back1s out til im over it. its considerably windier even for that spot and it starts lightly snowing. leave. get out at my homestop and the snowfall has picked up. go to petsmart and get 2 poop bags and wrap the trucks. the boards almost done at this point anyway. leave the store and now its not snowing at all and the grounds already dry. walk back uphill with the bags still on. see an interesting new spot on the way an asphalt bank merge into 2 ledges but with no rollaway room. think i wanna sk8 a manny spot tomorrow if its too windy for the high rise spot
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I had a productive session on Sunday, got six clips at four different spots. Plus I hit the axle on my truck.
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Met at the coffee spot, drank coffee for an hour. Went to the spot, couple slappies, bailed a kickflip over a cone, talked a bunch of shit. Got burritos and modelos. Went home and took a nap.
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Landed my first sketchy ass kickflip since i was maybe 12 years old lmao. Also tried fs shuvits for an hour or so but cannot for the life of me remember how to not land too far in front of the board.
stoked for you, you'll get that front shuv eventually. just keep landing the same way, but try to pop more forward. then you already learned them while clearing distance. that's pretty sick!
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Landed my first sketchy ass kickflip since i was maybe 12 years old lmao. Also tried fs shuvits for an hour or so but cannot for the life of me remember how to not land too far in front of the board.
stoked for you, you'll get that front shuv eventually. just keep landing the same way, but try to pop more forward. then you already learned them while clearing distance. that's pretty sick!
Yeah well done for the kickflip. A great achievement! My first kickflip after a 20 year hiatus was an amazing feeling. I never could do front shuvs and am nowhere near to landing them but I can nollie front shuv out of 50/50 grind since last week. 8)
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Learned bs noseslide nollie pop shoveit 360 out (270?) on a skate plaza last monday, did it on a real spot, a kinda good wood ledge that sticks on the truck, on my last session with was friday; filmed by my own on a 360 camera :D . Got it perfectly stomped and filmed. Tried nollie 360 flip out but really can't kick it out at all ??? Im 32 and still learning shit, so Im really hyped, still evolving ;D
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Learned bs noseslide nollie pop shoveit 360 out (270?) on a skate plaza last monday, did it on a real spot, a kinda good wood ledge that sticks on the truck, on my last session with was friday; filmed by my own on a 360 camera :D . Got it perfectly stomped and filmed. Tried nollie 360 flip out but really can't kick it out at all ???
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manny pad spot. its basically perfect. kicked out by in less than 20. annoyed because i was working on something. roll downhill to the high rise ledge curb spot. sk8 that until its almost dark. contemplate buying pizza again upon return but dont. that was the 2nd last sesh
sunday today. new board. visually its the 1st day of winter. snow everywhere. i got a sweet office tower underground spot with many levels thats bright and clean. dodge cameras with a bagged board until im there then sk8 flat for a bit. get kicked out. guys actually pretty nice or whatever. says he saw me half an hour ago. felt more like 20. get on the subway to another spot inside the station. do nothing but fakie hardflips for quite a while. see someone i know but dont enjoy the company of. talk to them very briefly. some poser walks by without his board and i see him judging back. i stop and roll around until he fcks off because im not putting on a show. seen him before hes dogshit on a board lmao. get a decent amount of fakie hardflips then leave. buy snacks on the way home
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Yesterday, saw some scant snowflakes coming down and quick geared up and grabbed my board for a mini-ramp sesh. 37F(3C), by 10 minutes in the snowfall was light and dusting the ramp. Skated 5 more minutes until my wheels started slipping out on my last 2 lines. 15 minute mini sesh in the snow made everything all right.
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Chipped the hell out of the nose on my week old board, but finally got a nice frontside smith on a decent size ledge so even Steven I guess
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Chipped the hell out of the nose on my week old board, but finally got a nice frontside smith on a decent size ledge so even Steven I guess
Chipped mine trying tres but didn’t get one >:(
I am glueing (is that a word?) the bit on tho.
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Went skating with my son (on his BMX). He told me to do some tricks, so I did a noseslide on a bench, a boardslide on the bench. A 1 foot ollie, pop shove it and like 5 kickflips. Then my back started being sore (currently have a back injury - I can cruise but tricks aggravate it)
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Went to the skatepark by my house, it's like Cooper in east wburg cut in half. Like a concrete prefab. Did little fly out shuvs onto the big pad and noseslid off the end of the low ledge for literally an hour. It was a little wet. Later I tried nollie back tail and stood on a couple and I was feeling it but this kid in the park who was ripping would deck tap whenever I got close and I got insecure and just skated the banks and qp - I heelflipped to fakie on a bank for the first time ever but i should probably have already had that
Anybody else feel weird about getting props at the park or the spot? I learned all of my ledge tricks in the last two years so I have never had to deal really. Slipped out of a pivot fakie at the BQE Polar bank spot that's since been destroyed back in maybe 2016 and got props but then I talked to the guy after and found out he just liked my jacket
It looked like this. Real thrift store kook vibe
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Was skating down the street to Circle K and some girls walking told me to do a kickflip so I did a heelflip because mine look better than my kickflips and they were none the wiser.
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i like getting props, makes me wanna go harder
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Skating the usual shitty park. Was getting close to hardflip fs 50-50 the middle ledge. Then my friend who rips showed up and started skating the ledges with me, and a cool scooter guy. They’re closer than friends than we are but I’m still fairly close with the ripper.
My friend tried to fs 5-0 the middle ledge, overshot it, tried to run it out but had no chance and got pitched in to the sharp metal corner of the final ledge face first. Long deep gash across his face. Another inch and he would’ve lost an eye no doubt. He immediately started bleeding everywhere, the scooter guy started losing his cool and volunteered me to drive our friend to the ER. Which I was fine with but I made sure scooter guy was coming with to keep me company at the hospital while I waited for our friend. As soon as we get to the parking lot scooter guy backs out and only came up to the car to take pictures of my friends wound, holding everyone up while I’m trying to get my friend in the car so we can go the ER.
Finally got our friend to the ER, and his girl was coming to get him so they could go pick up his kid after. So I could leave. I felt really bad for my friend but after a bunch of stitches he’ll be ok. Fuck the scooter guy for volunteering me and then backing out though. I was prepared to spend the next few hours waiting and I really wanted someone to wait with, luckily it didn’t come to that.
Got back to the park, called scooter guy out, then did a 15 trick line. Probably the best line I’ll ever do. Now I’ll be forever scared to skate that middle ledge fs ever again. I’ve always imagined that exact slam and now I watched it happen. It’s cursed
What were the 15 tricks?
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Got tre flips on lock. I’ve done them before. And can do them switch. But a regular tre flip took a lot of energy / effort. Now I’ve got them super easy. I’m way stoked. Feels like I unlocked a trick I never thought I would have down. I don’t do the new school ones tho. With the dangling rear leg. I do the old school og flips. Next is back 360s.
Heel flips is another I do well switch. But regular, in a game of skate. It’s poison. Fakie heel is border line miracle.
My son and I want to put together a little vid I’ll be sure to share as we plan on filming this week. ( I’ll be 45 in Jan ). Long time lurker, I would say a good 13 years it seems. Could be wrong. Who cares it’s slap.
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Anybody else feel weird about getting props at the park or the spot?
i like getting props, makes me wanna go harder
Yeah, never sweat props. The stoke must flow.
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Anybody else feel weird about getting props at the park or the spot? I learned all of my ledge tricks in the last two years so I have never had to deal really. Slipped out of a pivot fakie at the BQE Polar bank spot that's since been destroyed back in maybe 2016 and got props but then I talked to the guy after and found out he just liked my jacket
It looked like this. Real thrift store kook vibe
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I’m so old that I can’t hear anything anyways. So if I’m getting props (prob not) or getting laughed at (probably yes) I can’t hear and don’t care. I yell out a lot of YEAH!s though, for stuff I think is cool that I see go down.
Also, I’d skate in that jacket, yelling MURICUH! Every 83 seconds. Then hop in my Camaro and burn out.
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Did a tre>pop shuv>fs pop shuv to fakie>crook pop out line yesterday and was just fucking thrilled. I went to bed replaying that one in my head.
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some flat and curb. fed the squirrels and talked to yolandi a bit. some idiot put a bit of rock salt in the middle of the street but its minimal and contained
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Skated my driveway solo trying to figure out how to film myself it was distracting and stressful
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Got FS 180 sw manny’s down. Tried a FS flip into it and snapped my nose.
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I pushed around in an empty parking garage by myself and also I think I broke my foot.
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windy and wet but warmer day. rained through the morning then briefly again in the afternoon. brought a bag for the board in case because i cant fully trust the weather channel. dropped some food off for the squirrels cherry tomatoes and apple pieces. then station alt exit indoor flat rush hour test. passed. sk8 for like an hour then some random kid leaving the platform had a board and asked to sk8 too. it was good because its on camera and the worker isnt too far away either so i wanted to see if double noise was a bust factor. didnt get kicked out
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2 days ago at lindavista, got to skate with hewitt, chris russel and lefty, rhino got there shortly after.
I may go next week im not sure yet
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Threw on my new 56mm F4 Conical Fulls and let 'er rip around town on an unusually warm December day. I 50'd a ledge I'd never even come close to (mid thigh height, was at one time at peace with the fact that I'd never grind something that tall) in three tries. Big wheels are the truth!
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Mainly got some flatground parking lot skating in today. Super basic but I came close to landing a half cab manny, hoping to land that soon.
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Was super warm 50s, might not get many more chances to skate so went out. Did couple kick flips that felt good which isn't the norm. Wanted to try back tails, a trick that has always evaded me. Tried a different approach, I pretended and set up like I was doing them switch and it worked.
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About 4 months back into skating after a decade or so hiatus. Just started landing frontside 50-50's to backside 180 out today and filming it. So fucking stoked to keep progressing from here.
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Went to the Ikea garage to fix some cracks in the curbs with quick concrete.
It was a sunny but wet day (37°F / 3°C).
Whole garage was filled with rc car adults (probably my age, but they look older because they don't move their body). I fixed one crack and started skating some flat and got angry looks from them and felt bad vibes.
Can't deal with that, I am scared of people.
Spend another hour to find a dry parking lot outside. The third one had some dry places between the puddles. Did all my basics until I started sweating and went to visit my parents.
My parents said I am crazy for doing that all by myself.
But I love skating more than anything else.
Maybe this weekend someone will join me for a session, but I don't have high hopes.
I gotta keep that PMA and wait for better days.
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same indoor spot. some crackhead in a suit pretending to be on an important business call on the payphone gets mad because of the noise. a dude leaving the platform in his 20s offers to fight him for me and i just say its not even worth it. keep sk8ing. feels bad because he was in his late 50s or something and its not nice to have some young buck jumping to fight an almost elder. could i have left the station exit and come back in a bit. idk because he was playing make believe on the phone for about 30 minutes and only left because of the dude who wanted to fight. was in a rush earlier too. i guess thats selfish. pre rush hour and fairly quiet in there so i get kicked out after like 30 to 40. worker comes bitching and says hey this is not a playground leave. then goes are you gonna pay for all those scuffs on the marble. i deflect saying it was like that when i got there. which isnt a lie. some may or may not be new but the floor is already covered in pivot tracks. he goes csi and claims its from the same wheels and i just say have a good day and leave to which he puffs his chest and goes ya i will. buy a drink then walk back because i dont feel like skating uphill downwind
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Skated a park solo that has smooth concrete obstables and some old shit on crusty asphalt. Learned tail stalls on a concrete quarter (mellow and fun, wish it had coping tho). Took off my regular wheels and put on the Keyframes. Skated a funky curb in the crust and worked on bs 5050s. I get em, I lose em. Got a few today. My board got soggy and put on a new one. Twas a good time where two hours flew by in what seemed like ten minutes.
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Skated my driveway I'm trying to learn how to film myself got some decent flat ground but the surface of the driveway is really terrible I struggled but it was worth it.
You can check out the results on Instagram if you want: @CPUSkAte
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just buy the cheapest tripod they have at best buy even the dollar store might have them. usual outdoor spot. snowstorm began. with the freshie ive only sk8ed a few times outdoors so far mostly indoors but i noticed a series of shallow yet sorta lengthy pressure cracks. not stoked but whatever guess i will sticker it over
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Yesterday started rough, lots of missed timing, 14 inch wheelbase on ventures had me tripping
but when i got the timing right phew I was actually catching stuff in the air again!
But the blessing of the tiny board comes with a price, I landed everything toe draggin bad!
also switching to the classic wheels after riding conical OJs for years, oh I can actually salvage landings.
nailed a full cab ollie but my knee bent kinda weird.
progress
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I skated until my thighs were sore. Now I’m at work looking up thigh exercises to maximize my skate time. I’ve reached the age where I have to do more than just skate to be able to skate consistently
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Went to the park and two different kids were skating in ski masks.
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subway flat. some flip bonks off walls etc. im stoked because when i was leaving i noticed it was the joe pesciesque dude who kicked me out the last time but he didnt do shit today
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28 Degrees Fahrenheit, wet and windy.
Put some Bones Hards into my Films, they work very well in the cold. Found a flatground spot with a lill roof and big lights with motion sensors. I tryed my best to warm up but it took so long to even land my basics, I had no energy left to work on anything new. I got my Oj Mini Juice on, made it even more challenging to skate flat I guess. So I said fuck it and bombed a hill into the inner city. End of the hill the road freezed, slipped out and bombed the rest of the hill on my butt. Nobody arround so not that much of an embarrassment..
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Brought a loveseat curb setup and an 8. Listened to jazzy drum and bass mix while warming up with loveseat. I'm trying to get switchy and flippy with 8 again until sundown. Fun times.
edit: my session soundtrack
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2vhO_rjvFo
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Jumped over a street cone for a few minutes and suffered from back pain for the rest of the night, good times.
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Jumped over a street cone for a few minutes and suffered from back pain for the rest of the night, good times.
Yeah, I’ve been working on just ollies, manuals, and shuvs in the basement and the first place I feel ollies is in my lower back. My wife says I should strengthen my abs for support. Actually, that is the 2nd place I feel ollie work, in my abs.
This shit is hard; thinkin’ about having a lighter setup for my ground goals.
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Landed a few pretty butter halfcab flips, been trying to get them popped higher and a bit more consistent.
Also almost got clipped by a car skating to the spot, been a long time since that's happened.
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Having a lot of back problems lately... :-\
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I am still recovering from the rib contusion but went for a few mannies on Saturday and then had the irresistible urge to bomb a hill with the Lurpivs. It‘s a mellow hill but you get fast enough that you can‘t jump off the board anymore without eating shit. Got minor speed wobbles on midtight Lurpivs.
On Sunday I got a short flatground session in only to make sure I still have the basics and was pleased to land a few nice kickflips, a nice heel and fakie heel both second try. Is there a more satisfying feeling than that split second when you look down on the bloard on a fliptrick and see the board come around and connect with your feet and you realise you are going to roll away clean from that one?
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in the corner of a wet parking garage trying to get back 3s for 2 hours
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Skated in a very tiny little contest at a small random park. Felt like the little contests my hometown used to put on in the Midwest. Had me feeling kinda nostalgic can’t even lie. Everyone was super chill and having fun. Got first place in the 30yr +, hahaha. I felt slightly embarrassed. Life is fun.
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skated ledges last night after work ln
skated a big ish bowl before work today
i am the worlds tiredest ATV
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Went to a park that has one of those huge unforgiving banks. After a couple of ups and downs I went for a nollie bs flip cos that’s the chillest but I totally underestimated the bank steepness.
Like I popped it then rotated and looked down and I couldn’t see shit below me. Fell from like 2m height (on my feet thankfully). Double heel bruise.
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Yesterday I waited for it to get warm enough to skate. By that time it was nearly noon. I usually avoid my local skatepark (Glenhaven PDX) during peak hours but it was still pretty quiet when I got there. I got a solid hour in and landed most of my stock moves. Then a little dude shows up. He's probably around 11. He has Gator deck and a Sex Pistols t-shirt. Immediately, I wonder what he really knows about Gator and the Sex Pistols and question his dad's poor taste. Anyway he comes up to me and asks if I have ever rolled into the shallow end of the pool (pretty legit pool transitions). I say, "Yeah" And he says, "I'm gonna do it today." I haven't done it in awhile and honestly have been hiding from it... So we amp each other up and we both make it second try. Then the park got busy so I bailed for my new curb spot. I started getting some nice backside 180 powerslides into fakie 50 50s and decided why not try something out. After two tries I landed a fakie big spin out of one. Felt pretty satisfied and went home to walk the dog.
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I was beat to shit from climbing the day before but needed to get out while my son was chillin. Skated the Courthouse solo like normal and my pop was quite nonexistent, but it was fun just railing 50-50s on the ledges I can do em on.
Then I made the dumb decision to compare 2 setups, which just told me what I already know about each. Madness is real.
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Got my board out the other day, wanted to skate really bad. Gust of wind blew across my neck and I didn't like it, so I went inside and drank a beer. Guess that's not really a skate session. An almost skate session
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front foot impossibles will be here in the near future as evidenced at my last skate session.
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got to the park about an hour after my friend did, he said he'd been trying the same trick (fake bigspin on the hip) for half an hour
understandably he got pretty pissed at it and left to get water after another while of torturing himself.
while he was gone i tried it and got it first try, it felt dirty, like i had clogged someones toilet at a party and they'd never know it was me
left to skate a curb 15 minutes after he left, got some decent slappy crooks and called it a day when my 3L bottle ran out
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It was a fun hour in the warehouse. I worked on frontside nose slides, still can’t slide longer than a few inches. Started playing around with switch frontside and backside boardslides. Also rediscovered fs lipslide to 5050s, which are fun but I am sure would make someone vomit if I did one in public.
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I skated flat for a couple hours after work last night and started trying focusing on tricks I haven’t ridden away from in years. Mainly an uncountable number of bailed switch front heels and switch tre flips. Currently counting down the hours until I get out of work so I can go do it again tonight
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Skated for the first time since my board was stolen and it was difficult but rewarding. I despise breaking in new trucks/wheels but am trying to enjoy the process of working with a christmas complete (a new setup won't break itself in). That being said I'm looking forward to scratching up my trucks later this week with the help of some slappies. Although it's been cold out, I will say it was nice to feel a little responsiveness from my bushings while popping out of krooks
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New shoes and a christmas complete in 30 degree weather. Fucking nightmare
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snowskating by myself in -20 8)
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Tested out this indoor mini skate park we have set up as the only place to skate around here during winter.
Didn't skate for two months.
Filmed a shitty flatground treflip then proceeded to ruin my knee on a skatepark bank to 50-50. Also got crazy diarrhea and food poisoning later that day which lasted for over a week. That was a month ago. My knee is still not ok.
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Session at the indoor an hour away.
Nobody was there so I had the park 3 hours for myself.
Kinda boring but also pretty nice somehow. Seems like everyone has covid now . Because the whole week no one showed up and no one has booked for the next few days the employee told me. I hope they survive this.
I mean they charge 3 euros for 3 hours skating..
So I worked on my miniramp skills today. Came close to my first frontside 5-0 . A bit of flatground and basic ledge grinds. Finally I figured out how to pop into bs 5-0s but couldn't land one. Slipped out every time at the end of the ledge. Someone waxed the shit out of it, or maybe my balance point is off. Idk.. still couldn't figure out how to kickflip manual. I mean the manipad isn't that high and kickflip up is not really a challenge but I always land bolts with my blackfoot so not really a good chance to do a manual in this position. After all, a good session. Brought me back to center after a pretty shitty week so far.
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Skated in a very tiny little contest at a small random park. Felt like the little contests my hometown used to put on in the Midwest. Had me feeling kinda nostalgic can’t even lie. Everyone was super chill and having fun. Got first place in the 30yr +, hahaha. I felt slightly embarrassed. Life is fun.
hahah, awesome story and congrats. What was the contest format?
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40 degrees snuck up on me yesterday afternoon so I ran to the court spot and did a bunch of 3 shoves on my Dane 1. So flat, so disgusting. One-footing kickflips. Then my vape died and I got home and my nose has been running since
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25 degree concrete sesh (the “mid atlantic special”) in the coolest corner of the city. jammed afroman the whole time and wondered how many times they’re gonna buff the sign in wall before they let us ride
floated a few over coping but i felt stiff as fuck and we packed it in after an hour
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First try on a few flip tricks, always gratifying. Then worked on popped Fakie BS bigspins... super satisfying when those come round nice and high.
My local spot (car park) has had all the white lines repainted, and they are 2mm high... just about in the danger zone for my small wheels if my weight distribution is off... I much preferred it when they were worn out and flat.
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Took an hour drive to the indoor just to realize they are closed. I phoned them yesterday to check if it's open today and they said , yeah sure.
So I was pissed.. drove back home looking for a dry spot with lights on. Found a shitty place in an industrial area. Pretty open next to a field, so a fresh cold wind was blowing in my face. Warmed up a bit and tried to go through my flatground basics. Nothing worked besides a few sketchy 360 Flips and Kickflips. Then a trucker arrived. Searching for a place for the night. And sure, he needs the place where I skate.. the whole place was empty but yeah, whatever. So I'm even more pissed. Said to myself, one last trick an than call it. So I wanted to end the session with an Halfcap Heel.. easy trick for me, but Ianded to far on the nose, snapped my board.. now I sit here, questioning my existence..
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i was in washington square park in the fountain. i was smoking some weed listening to music while i ride around doing ollies and attempting fs and bs 180s as well as kickflips. shit was fun
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i was in washington square park in the fountain. i was smoking some weed listening to music while i ride around doing ollies and attempting fs and bs 180s as well as kickflips. shit was fun
Weed + trying to skate around a shit ton of people in that park would probably ruin my session but glad you had fun.
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Landed primo on a switch bs pop shuv to top off a decidedly sketchy session.
The only saving grace was finally landing 3 clean half cab flips in a row...everything else was pretty much hot garbage.
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I can't half cab flip on flat to save my life so that's pretty sick.
Brought my one foot tall wedge/bank to do ollies at the school parking lot and set it up to go up a curb and land into a handicap ramp/bank. It felt so good just to get some lift. Skated for almost two hours before I got hungry/thirsty so went home.
Drank some kombucha/vodka mixed drinks and almost ate complete shit just trying to do boardslides in my basement. It feels so good to laugh in the face of disaster like this.
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Primo’d a 360 flip and tweaked my bad knee. It’ll be fine, just ended the session early is all.
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did some woopdewoos and twirlys into a thing
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Broke in my Lurpivs on a few ledges. When I went back to the car a jogger dude walked behind me, younger than me and I could feel his eyes on my back so I popped a neat kickflip, followed by a decent heelflip, then tried a fakie heel, bailed, tried again and rolled away. This is as rare as hen’s teeth. Dude acted like nothing happened but I felt like a king. The small things…
To top it off I went to check out a school they have recently renovated to find out they installed a mid high concrete nanny table/grind box and an awkward flatbar which starts extremely high and goes down gradually to just about high enough for me. No way any school kid will be able to do anything with it tho. Got a short boardslide on the flatbar, 50/50 the length of the grindbox and mannied the table so I was happy.
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Tried learning fs smiths on ledges. Kept sticking. It was getting late, and I really didn't want to head home empty-handed. So I started trying them faster and faster and kept falling until I accidentally kicked the ground really hard. Woke up this morning, and I can't put any pressure on the captain toe, feels really weird like it might be broken. Fuck, really wanted to skate today >:(
(https://i.imgur.com/t35wuasm.jpg?1)
Damn man, I guess mine is broken now. Purple and swollen. How long have you not been skating after this ?
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i had purchased a can of clear coat, and so went on a quest to find any spots to release my wrath on.
on my journey i happened across a wallie spot in a new parking lot, so i spent the better part of 30 minutes unsuccessfully throwing myself at that.
after that got boring, i made the 20 minute walk up to a school that has some decent spots. there was a basketball game on so i resisted the urge to paint any ledges, but still skated the three stair for a while.
i left and cruised around the suburban hills for a good while, which proved a good time.
went to aldi and did slappy crooks, and tried unsuccessfully to 180 out of one. got kicked out.
when all else failed, i went to the park, which was hot as fuck and empty as fuck. landed funny on a nollie down the four, so i limped over to the bench. of course minutes after getting injured some people showed up.
after 10ish minutes of watching them skate, i resigned to the fact that i wouldn't get back on the board again and went home.
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went to the parking lot and there was a funeral going on next door so I only got a chance to fall down for a few minutes before deciding I should leave rather than start yelling "fuck, man."
went back at 5:30 and realized someone had lacquered a tall curved curb cut and schlepped the shit outta the thing. real fun going on the interior of a curve
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Was having my usual Sunday afternoon session at the park, went for a bs 5050 and slipped, when bailing catched the ledge with my front foot, somehow I got a fucking cut between the big and captain toes. Right in the balls of my feet. Can only walk on my heel, wondering if I should go to the hospital
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Indoor bowl at a warehouse I pay rent at. Skated with two of my best friends, one of which was visiting home from Colorado. Skated the bowl for 2.5 hours, fucking shot out on some pool coping & got a nice little hipper. Skated an outdoor spot with a nice ollie up curb to bank to ledge. Hard for me as ollieing & going fast enough to hit something is NOT easy for me. Started a nice little hole in my new authentics but was happy to be outside skating. My pal from Colorado did a Janoski style slappy crook on the ledge to fake, rode off curb (downhill spot) & did a SW FS Bigspin. Made me happy.
Snow here, so we shall see what the future holds for outdoors. Need to learn kickflips. One foot evertime, got lucky 5 months ago & did one stationary & stepped off.
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Went to Bellingham WA for a weekend. Skated the park while my girlfriend took a nap. Recognized the park from a pre-prison Cory Kennedy video and realized how fucked he is. Bummed around and did a hoho thing on this tomb stone obstacle and did some inverts and layback grinds on a five foot wall, trying to get comfortable on big ramps again after dislocating my elbow. Did a pressure flip and went home. It was fun
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One of those days- haven't skated much the past couple of weeks as the weather has been horrendous (UK storms), and my knee has been playing up.
Finally get out today, session starts well, land a nice kickflip first trick, first try... then it was downhill from there. A few tricks into warming up, I slipped out hard on a switch BS pop shuv and went down on my back straight onto both bent elbows. My neck/back had been pretty well behaved the past couple months but i'm sure I'll pay for it tomorrow.
I was a bit shaken but decided to try and salvage the session and get a few tricks down, couldn't land a half cab flip today for love nor money, despite getting pretty consistent with them the past couple months.
Ended the session as I started it, nicely caught kickflip, then retreated home as it started to rain.
Not the best day, not the worst... but seriously, fuck switch pop shuvs, I badly primo'd one a few weeks ago, might have to stop doing them!
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skated a weird DIY in delaware. managed to time it between the 9am dad crew and the 3pm locals skate the ledge crew so i got some stuff done.
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Learned FS 5-0 BS 180 out on a decent sized box. Tried landing a 3 flip up the euro, but there were 20mph winds, so I didn't land flippy spinnies but a kickflip and some shitty pop shuvs. Got some above coping frontside airs with the extra push from the wind. Was getting closer to popping out of k-grinds instead of just rotating out. Unfortunately, two college women showed up and sat on the ledge to sketch, and I didn't feel like telling them to fuck of.
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Learned FS 5-0 BS 180 out on a decent sized box. Tried landing a 3 flip up the euro, but there were 20mph winds, so I didn't land flippy spinnies but a kickflip and some shitty pop shuvs. Got some above coping frontside airs with the extra push from the wind. Was getting closer to popping out of k-grinds instead of just rotating out. Unfortunately, two college women showed up and sat on the ledge to sketch, and I didn't feel like telling them to fuck of.
fs 5-0 bs 180 rules, such a sick trick!
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Woke up at 8am to go to my local at about 9. As of late its been ranging from 30-40 degrees in the morning. Got there, and it was perfect. Completley empty. went there solely to try and learn frontside 5-0 in the bowl. had been skating around and got warm enough, and started going for some of the 5-0 grinds. about 15 minutes in. downpour started... was majorly bummed but still stoked I got to skate for a little less than an hour total
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This weekend I went to SF for the first time, so our final day we went up to Fort Miley. I wasn’t skating at my peak because I was so tired but it was so cool. My favorite spot was this brick transition by the 24th and mission BART stop. Totally out of my wheelhouse so I started with no expectations and managed to land a front crook stall to fakie.
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I found out I can skate the parking lot next to my apartment at night as it gets enough light from the adjacent football pitch and for rainy days I found a no bust flat only underground parking lot nearby. This is a game changer because it means I can get in a quick session almost every night after work, 30 - 40 minutes going through all tricks and try a few new ones. It‘s intense and helps me get more consistent. Tonight I had such a session.
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The session in terms of my own skating was uneventful, but trick talk isn't what this thread is made for anyway.
I managed to get in touch with a homie I rarely skate with anymore, and we met at the park. It was the most mild day in recent history and thus horribly crowded, so we promptly left.
On the prowl for previously undiscovered street spots, we found ourselves in a glass-smooth car park built outside a new electronics store (not the phone kind, the security cameras and assorted electrical doodads kind). The spot itself was barebones, which simply allowed our imaginations to flow. Quickly, I set my brain to some Matt Tomasello shit.
There was a quite terrible wallie 'spot' that may have been useful to anyone more skilled, but not us. The homie and I grew tired of bashing our boards into the wall to no avail, when I set my eyes on a pile of plywood covered wooden pallets, forgotten in the corner. I set it against the wall, and immediately the possibilities began flowing.
I shredded in my own sketchy way, but my apelike gait did not diminish the insane amounts of fun that were had.
Some time into the assault on the pallet, the homie's board went flying out of the parking lot through the street. (The parking lot has a driveway perpendicular to the wall that leads directly into the street, which is in turn perpendicular to the driveway.) The board narrowly missed a car, and we took it as a sign to leave the spot alone.
FIN.
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Double heel bruise.
This stuff haunts you it’s still painful now when I skate. It comes up randomly at a certain time during the sesh. Nightmare.
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This stuff haunts you it’s still painful now when I skate. It comes up randomly at a certain time during the sesh. Nightmare.
The only time I got a double heel bruise, it was a blessing in disguise. I was 18 and had managed to sprain both ankles but insisted on continuing to skate while wearing an ankle brace on each. Each session was just skating until I would resprain an ankle because I was so stubborn.
I got drunk at a party and jumped down eight stairs to greet one of my friends resulting in bruised heels. I was in college and still had to make it to classes the next day which was comical. The time off my board let my ankles finally have time to heal.
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40 minutes of fun
On a whim I walked past my weekend spot coming home from work, i spotted some of the guys who I bump into there semi recently, dragging a diy curb/ledge to the spot.
I stopped to help push the thing into place, one of the guys mentioned he was going to bring down a small quarter if I was coming back with my board.
It took me forever to get back but I got three runs on the qp and some solid flat ground
Legs are killing me a few days after
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I rolled my ankle two nights ago. Missed out on a good skate day yesterday. I did a few painful frontside grinds today just to get out of the house on a nice day
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I was warming up on a pretty small flat bar and I slipped out and my leg went awkwardly behind me. All of my weight rolled over it and I broke my leg. Such a weird freak thing. Had to get surgery and even with insurance cost me like $5k. Really sucks but shit happens. Hope to start pushing around again toward the end of April and will hopefully be 100% end of May or early June.
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I was warming up on a pretty small flat bar and I slipped out and my leg went awkwardly behind me. All of my weight rolled over it and I broke my leg. Such a weird freak thing. Had to get surgery and even with insurance cost me like $5k. Really sucks but shit happens. Hope to start pushing around again toward the end of April and will hopefully be 100% end of May or early June.
That sucks, get well soon.
I spent Sunday afternoon slappying a virgin curb. The Lurpivs are now well worn in. I wanted to learn slappy crooks too but have no clue how to do them. Oh and I rolled away from a kickflip, heelflip, fakie heel in a row. A first for me.
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I relocated about 45 min away from my hometown about 4 years ago... I was used to skating a plethora of spots and parks just a hiccup away. The type of spots you'd see in the best homie videos, and even some major board brand films. I put some time aside to make the very small pilgrimage to one of my favorite parks on a beautiful autumn day. I roll in, try to warm up a bit and get a feel of thee ol' sea legs. I'm terribly out of shape, but if I can pull a backside board I'll go home happy and ego boosted.
I'm already winded from the 10 minutes of pushing around and take solace on the serenely smooth pavement towards the top of the park. I am embarrassed by the amount of the sweat already beginning to take form on my person for such a trifle effort when a local takes notice and mutters, "New shoes AND a new setup? Sheeeeeeeesh....". I take inventory, pep myself up for a front 5-0 on the nearest bank only to bail before a slurry of new blood on scooters and mini-decks. I make my way towards the parking lot and leave not only defeated, but surprised at the amount of social anxiety I have accumulated during my time away from thy beloved chillerz paradise.
I make the trip home, watch a nine club interview whilst enjoying my post-game beverage, and fade away into self induced obscurity.
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skated a weird DIY in delaware. managed to time it between the 9am dad crew and the 3pm locals skate the ledge crew so i got some stuff done.
This delicate timing ritual dominates my weekly skating routine. Very relatable.
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skated a weird DIY in delaware. managed to time it between the 9am dad crew and the 3pm locals skate the ledge crew so i got some stuff done.
mid atlantic skateboarding: all about timing
This delicate timing ritual dominates my weekly skating routine. Very relatable.
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Skinned both ankles again. Accidentally punched the ground while falling. Woke up with a purple ass cheek and a really sore hand. Have to type all day, this is going to be a struggle.
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Went out and skated with a friend of mine for the first time in about 3-4 years. It felt really good! I was still able to land most of the tricks I was able to do years ago and attempted to try a few new ones too. Did make me realize I need a new setup though. I borrowed my friends 8.5 board with much looser trucks than I am used to and I think that will be the direction I go when I purchase a new board.
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windy! for the 5th weekend in a row!
wouldn't mind if there was lights at the local but there isn't, so no midweek sessions until the evenings get lighter again.
weekends are the only option for a skate atm but relying on the British weather in the winter/early spring sucks. nearest indoors an hour drive away but that's 20 bucks entry plus the petrol on top so that isn't a viable thing to do regularly unless you got a car full to bring the costs down.
'British weathers dark 7 months of the year, the feel good factors not reaching here.'
springs around the corner tho, gotta find those positives!
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I have been thinking of trying this kickflip front 50 to fire cracker on this ledge off stairs for like the past week. Yesterday I went to spot to try it out. It was windy so there was a bunch of little leaves with some ball inside so I kept getting stuck on them rolling up to the ledge. I havent kickflip front 50 in a while and my board is a lil wider than I usually ride. (Usually skate an 8.25 but accidentally ordered an 8.5). I was surpringly getting into the trick but the scary part was the fire cracker down the set. Somehow it didnt take too long and I filmed it. Sadly I didnt get the roll away so I did it again. Took longer this time but it came out pretty sick. Stoked I got this trick since its been in my head all week. Might want to try to flip 5-0 it next time.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CafonMdPTEc/?utm_medium=copy_link
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I have been thinking of trying this kickflip front 50 to fire cracker on this ledge off stairs for like the past week. Yesterday I went to spot to try it out. It was windy so there was a bunch of little leaves with some ball inside so I kept getting stuck on them rolling up to the ledge. I havent kickflip front 50 in a while and my board is a lil wider than I usually ride. (Usually skate an 8.25 but accidentally ordered an 8.5). I was surpringly getting into the trick but the scary part was the fire cracker down the set. Somehow it didnt take too long and I filmed it. Sadly I didnt get the roll away so I did it again. Took longer this time but it came out pretty sick. Stoked I got this trick since its been in my head all week. Might want to try to flip 5-0 it next time.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CafonMdPTEc/?utm_medium=copy_link
Yes bro so dope! I could do kickflip front 50s back in the day but since my comeback I haven‘t had the balls to even try one… yet. Yours was really clean and that ledge was no joke but the firecracker is the cherry on top!
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You know how in Rocky he prepares for the fight by punching sides of raw beef? Well, yesterday it was as cold as that meat locker he was in. So I wore a cute fuzzy hat with long tassels and practiced backside tailslides on a curb. I accidentally swallowed a tassel that went down my throat and puked up a bit. Nasty taste, so I called it quits and skated home. :-\
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Went street skating in the hopes of maybe filming something with a homie. This was the first time hitting some different spots in awhile outside of the usual parking lot & skateparks. I quickly realized how limited my bag of tricks are especially on ledges & felt like I really have no business trying to film anything at the moment. Sort of humbling experience
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You know how in Rocky he prepares for the fight by punching sides of raw beef? Well, yesterday it was as cold as that meat locker he was in. So I wore a cute fuzzy hat with long tassels and practiced backside tailslides on a curb. I accidentally swallowed a tassel that went down my throat and puked up a bit. Nasty taste, so I called it quits and skated home. :-\
lolz. Last couple session PM reports are total bad news bears.
I quit doing just carve grinds and skated the top of the coping for a change. Weird what tricks stayed and which went.
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Not in pain but it feels like my knees don't have energy and spring to attempt most tricks besides front noses, tre flips, and crooked grinds. I'll think about trying a trick, roll up, bend knees, then just nah, abort.
I'm 30 but a big guy. Skating feels way dif than it did not too long ago. With that said weather was great in Chicago went to the huge skate plaza and did a bunch of fs nose to fakie, some 5-0s, tre flips and drank and smoked. First time skating outside in over 3 months
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My last session was actually really fun.
It was kind of normal/sucky when there were a few "cool" kids there. One kid was younger and really good, but a total douche. Like, sucked the air right out of the park. There were a couple older dudes who were pretty damn good and relatively nice, but the interactions were awkward.
Once they all left, it is was so much fun. It was me (old dude), two dudes in their early 20s who were pretty good, one younger skater who had tons of energy and a few other random people of varying skill levels.
As soon as the "cool" dudes left, the atmosphere completely changed. Everyone was way more talkative, everyone was louder in their support of one another, and people were less afraid to try their tricks. Everyone had fun, no one was trying to be cool, and everyone supported one another.
One person learned fly outs and had a fucking blast doing it (I can't remember the last time I had that much fun), the two kids in their twenties did some gnarly stuff around the park, and I relearned a trick on a ledge with the worst coping ever. The kids in their twenties supported my tries on the ledge, tried to do doubles with me a few times, and then cheered pretty hard for me when I finally got the trick.
It was really fun.
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Yesterday I waited for it to get warm enough to skate. By that time it was nearly noon. I usually avoid my local skatepark (Glenhaven PDX) during peak hours but it was still pretty quiet when I got there. I got a solid hour in and landed most of my stock moves. Then a little dude shows up. He's probably around 11. He has Gator deck and a Sex Pistols t-shirt. Immediately, I wonder what he really knows about Gator and the Sex Pistols and question his dad's poor taste. Anyway he comes up to me and asks if I have ever rolled into the shallow end of the pool (pretty legit pool transitions). I say, "Yeah" And he says, "I'm gonna do it today." I haven't done it in awhile and honestly have been hiding from it... So we amp each other up and we both make it second try. Then the park got busy so I bailed for my new curb spot. I started getting some nice backside 180 powerslides into fakie 50 50s and decided why not try something out. After two tries I landed a fakie big spin out of one. Felt pretty satisfied and went home to walk the dog.
Where’s the new curb spot? I recently bought a house out by Rockwood and trying to find more spots out there.
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Snapped my tail doing a no comply off a curb. It was the third board I broke this week, all tail snaps. I am feeling pretty discouraged.
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Took my puppy to the DIY spot and cruised around while she chased me.
people like you need to be banned from skate parks
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Skated around the block while walking my dog
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spent about an hour at my curb spot. ended up being a good time even though i was sore and tired.
worked on standing on my slappy noseslides and pushing slappy's a bit further and faster
even made the board flip
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Really fucking windy, boosted a bunch of ollies on the bumps. Was working on a backside nosegrind pop-outs. Haven't landed one in years. Got sick of not landing it and ended up just bs nose grinding the whole ledge, felt great, but not what I had in mind. :-\ I will get my satisfaction one of these days.
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Chill sesh, went with my roommate and another homie, linked up with two more homies, another homie came, a bunch of other homies who knew me but not my homies showed up by surprise. Nicest Saturday so far this year and the first one I've had off in a *long* time. Sunny and nice :) Learned half cab 5-0s on curbs and failed to pop out of a frontside hurricane on one. Good times, can't wait for spring.
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Heelflip obsession back in full swing, had a nice little flip session generally and worked on some basics just to get my legs going after 4 days of walking up and down Edinburgh with the missus. Seem to be landing 8 out of 10 regs heels now, with a few really nice ones sprinkled in. Years ago I had doubles but haven't managed to land any since I started again, need to have a go at those just for a lark.
Swore off halfcab flips for a while to help my knee recovery but couldn't resist ending the session on one, came in three tries after not doing any for 3 weeks, i'll take that.
Need to start working on some new stuff soon but really haven't been feeling confident in my knee... i pretty much picked all the low hanging fruit last year so need to step up to the next level flatground wise if I want to get some new learns.
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My local park is getting demolished in 17 days, real sad story, the local rec center gave us no warning and this is the only park in my area with good rails/ledges/sets. On the bright side, the community has really come together and the park has had the best energy in a long time, everyone throwing down, I'm slowly ticking off the bucket list tricks I've been bunting on now that I know my time is limited. I've had the most fun skating the last week than I have had in years, everything working out well.
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I got frontside nose slide to regular almost on lock since today, I feel like Max Palmer now. Also did a few switch ones on a curb. There were 5 guys at the park, everyone was nice, we did a group game of skate that was quite fun. I ate some shit at the end but great 5h sesh
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4 hour tour of wilmington de
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Did a flip front nose for the first time in over twenty years. It was not a trick i ever really tried so feels like a new one, even though im 90% sure i have done one before. At 43 i am stoked to still skate.
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Skated my local DIY landed the weird nollie 180 nosegrind where you roll up like you're going to do a front side nose side do nollie backside 180 land in the back side switch 50
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Skated my local DIY landed a fsns 270 out
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Flatground sesh at a park closeby. Goal was to just dial in my kickflips more.... landed 80-100 or so.
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I finished my box with an angle Iron and took it to the local park. There's no manny pad or lower ledge so the locals were stoked and we all had a nice session on the thing.
I snapped the second board in 2 weeks but somehow i was looking forward for it because I hated the last one .
So I set up an older, more mellow deck and suddenly my pop came back and I did my first kickflip front 5-0 on over 20 years or so.
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Homie flaked on the sesh so I stayed in the bowl, pumped around and didn't try shit
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2 ankle surgeries, one broken wrist and 2 kids in the past 5 years have kept me busy, so skating hasn't really been fun but mostly struggling the past few years. So many tricks lost, as well as pop.
Last night I pulled out two tricks randomly out of my ass that I rarely do (or even try nowadays) in a first-try line: half-cab 5-0 (+some flat ground trick, maybe a 180 in between?) and then a fakie bs crooked. Felt great.
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My local park is getting demolished in 17 days, real sad story, the local rec center gave us no warning and this is the only park in my area with good rails/ledges/sets. On the bright side, the community has really come together and the park has had the best energy in a long time, everyone throwing down, I'm slowly ticking off the bucket list tricks I've been bunting on now that I know my time is limited. I've had the most fun skating the last week than I have had in years, everything working out well.
Lonsdale ? if it is, that was my local until three months ago.
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My local park is getting demolished in 17 days, real sad story, the local rec center gave us no warning and this is the only park in my area with good rails/ledges/sets. On the bright side, the community has really come together and the park has had the best energy in a long time, everyone throwing down, I'm slowly ticking off the bucket list tricks I've been bunting on now that I know my time is limited. I've had the most fun skating the last week than I have had in years, everything working out well.
Lonsdale ? if it is, that was my local until three months ago.
yeah man! It's literally the perfect park except for the ground haha
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Everything felt so scary today. I hate those days where your brain is just like "yea, you're gonna break your spine on this for sure lol but go ahead have fun..." and you just can't get it together. In my younger days with a group of friends they would have just pushed me, or I could've just got fucked up, now I have to find a new way to get over it.
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Park was over crowded with beginner kids, but they were essentially all skating and there were a lot of girls, which is cool.
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Skated the worst park and it started snowing
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This was a few days ago. I skated for the first time in about a month. I fuckin killed it. Tre flipping and nollie flipping pyramids left and right. Skunking foos in games of skate. Nollie crookin ledges with little regard. It was a good day. Maybe there's a little hyperbole in there.
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Landed an intentional frontside Smith on transition
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There’s not a sewer cap in my city I haven’t Ollied over
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A bit frustrating tbh. I have been skating more than ever the last few weeks but I feel like I hit a wall. Not only am I not progressing, no I even start struggling with tricks I thought I had on lock (e.g. heelflip). I tried to back 50/50 a low ledge and kickflipping a small block in vain today, and ate shit twice bruising my hip. I was so stoked temperatures were decent, first day skating in a t shirt today but the session kind of bummed me out. Then to top it off I watched Kader and Hobar and asked myself what an old tosser like myself is trying to achieve out there. Thanks for reading.
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A bit frustrating tbh. I have been skating more than ever the last few weeks but I feel like I hit a wall. Not only am I not progressing, no I even start struggling with tricks I thought I had on lock (e.g. heelflip). I tried to back 50/50 a low ledge and kickflipping a small block in vain today, and ate shit twice bruising my hip. I was so stoked temperatures were decent, first day skating in a t shirt today but the session kind of bummed me out. Then to top it off I watched Kader and Hobar and asked myself what an old tosser like myself is trying to achieve out there. Thanks for reading.
It happens, my hip is all bruised up too from eating it on easy stuff. Off days are the worst. :(
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A bit frustrating tbh. I have been skating more than ever the last few weeks but I feel like I hit a wall. Not only am I not progressing, no I even start struggling with tricks I thought I had on lock (e.g. heelflip). I tried to back 50/50 a low ledge and kickflipping a small block in vain today, and ate shit twice bruising my hip. I was so stoked temperatures were decent, first day skating in a t shirt today but the session kind of bummed me out. Then to top it off I watched Kader and Hobar and asked myself what an old tosser like myself is trying to achieve out there. Thanks for reading.
It happens, my hip is all bruised up too from eating it on easy stuff. Off days are the worst. :(
Thanks. I know I should be grateful I can skate at all. Another day another session. Let‘s see what tomorrow brings.
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Cracked my truck doing a crooked grind now I have to retire a very well broken end 5 year old pair of Independents and skate a shitty cast off pair of thunders that I had laying around. I went to a local skatepark that I hadn't been to for a while and immediately I remembered why super windy ground isn't level pavement is atrocious etc. I went through my usual warm-up grinds 50/50 5.0 nose grind in all stances frontside and backside did some crooked grounds some Smith some feeble and then I moved on to skating the hip. On the hip I was able to do backside flip frontside flip front heel switch backside 180. Overall I was super excited cuz I got a new trick fakie big spin the hard way over the hip two cheers for me
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I've been strictly skating only my ramp for a long time, but have been wanting to hit the streets and finally got that gumption up today. 1.25 miles to the shop to pick up my car. Super-exciting for me, and I discovered that pushing was a bit sketchy. Actually, everything felt sketchy! I do feel a little proud of myself though and it was a blast.
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I went out to roll around during my break at work this morning. Cigarette in 1 hand, diet coke in the other, pebble sends me flying. Diet coke stays upright but slam my hip pretty good. A couple hours later I get home for lunch break and realize I don't have my keys. They must have gone flying with the slam. Fuck. 5 day weekend incoming.
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Did switch back slappy, was happy about it
That's all folks
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made my way down to the park after a quick warmup at the slappy spot, and soon after left due to hordes of toddlers and other small children crowding everything.
cruised around a new suburban development for a while, and found a nice little grass gap but most of it was fairly unremarkable.
i went to a high school with some stair sets, and encountered some other skaters! almost never happens. there was a guy trying a full cab down a 5 stair, but he was getting pissed and i didn't like the vibe so i left.
i bombed down the hill to another school, which had some new construction done recently (heaps of ledges) and i waxed up one of them. got a few crooks and noseslides on it, none of which i held for as long as i should have. i tried a few front tails and ate shit on all of them, so i left.
back to the park, still no homies there. but small children were absent, which was cool. a strange cop/clueless type came up to me while i was sitting and asked if i was selling (i wasn't), so i had some fun with him. wound him up with talk of this new 'fire strain of jenkem' until he got tired and left me alone.
overall a pretty good session, i'm hoping to get some more homies to that ledge spot soon.
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we finally have lights at our local park. so i can go there after work.
squeezed in two after work sessions the last two days and it was sick.
finally, being able to go skate quite regularly is super dope. the last
years it was more like once a week, which sucked. last session i've gotten
my basics pretty quick and overall felt more in control which was nice.
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I overcame the mental health and real life issues. Main part of them were the guy I usually filmed with. His narcissistic behaviour killed all the fun I once had while skating. It's not cool to throw boards at kids or scream when a trick doesn't work. Purposely breaking boards and just generally acting like a asshole. Combined with no real knowledge of how filming works and not being able to handle constructive criticism. Always talking about himself and wanting to produce regular Youtube content. That's all lame to me and not the reason why I started skating. I had to make a cut. Went on a few solo sessions and my love for skating came back. Just crusing around in the rain and ollieing small gaps. Watched the Chico 7x7 part and Ray's Memory Screen (Gold!)
Got me mad hyped on skating again.
Linked up with a good homie. Warming up at the local park, saw a few old homies I haven't seen in years.
Did a few nice wallies over a shin high stone with a wooden ply and bs and fs boardslides to regular and to fakie at the flatrail came fast for me. I was hyped.
Good homie brought his camera. We decided to refilm most of the stuff the other guy filmed of us. With a fisheye and we are actually in the picture completely this time.
Thanks Benny, I love you.
Filmed a Fs No Comply to Tailtap at a small bank to curb.
Maybe film that again because I want it perfect.
Skateboarding is great with relaxed people.
Thanks for reading my book pals. Love ya all.
TLDR: narcissism in skating sucks
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I overcame the mental health and real life issues. Main part of them were the guy I usually filmed with. His narcissistic behaviour killed all the fun I once had while skating. It's not cool to throw boards at kids or scream when a trick doesn't work. Purposely breaking boards and just generally acting like a asshole. Combined with no real knowledge of how filming works and not being able to handle constructive criticism. Always talking about himself and wanting to produce regular Youtube content. That's all lame to me and not the reason why I started skating. I had to make a cut. Went on a few solo sessions and my love for skating came back. Just crusing around in the rain and ollieing small gaps. Watched the Chico 7x7 part and Ray's Memory Screen (Gold!)
Got me mad hyped on skating again.
Linked up with a good homie. Warming up at the local park, saw a few old homies I haven't seen in years.
Did a few nice wallies over a shin high stone with a wooden ply and bs and fs boardslides to regular and to fakie at the flatrail came fast for me. I was hyped.
Good homie brought his camera. We decided to refilm most of the stuff the other guy filmed of us. With a fisheye and we are actually in the picture completely this time.
Thanks Benny, I love you.
Filmed a Fs No Comply to Tailtap at a small bank to curb.
Maybe film that again because I want it perfect.
Skateboarding is great with relaxed people.
Thanks for reading my book pals. Love ya all.
TLDR: narcissism in skating sucks
welcome back homie and props for freeing yourself
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Wore the wrong shoes and now my back hurts. Before that though I fully embraced that I’m a single elbow pad skater for now. I’ve had the tiniest swellbow for the past few months that causes my arm to go numb when I fall on it. Used a compression sleeve under the elbow pad and it wasn’t as distracting as I thought it would be
Some kid at the skatepark had some pretty bad flatspots. I gave him some SML wheels that I skated a handful of times and he was stoked
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Due to many different reasons, both good and bad, I’ve barely skated in years. Can’t remember the last time I skated a park. But today I dragged my ass to a shitty yet super fun little pre-fab, with an incredible ocean view, that I’d never been to before. I’m heavier, out of shape, and my muscle memory is all but gone.. but I managed to get a few tricks. Boardslid the flat bar, rock fakie the qp, bs/fs/halfcab noseslide and fs 5050 on an 8” tall ledge. Nothing impressive at all, but I was pretty surprised and stoked I managed to land that much.
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Due to many different reasons, both good and bad, I’ve barely skated in years. Can’t remember the last time I skated a park. But today I dragged my ass to a shitty yet super fun little pre-fab, with an incredible ocean view, that I’d never been to before. I’m heavier, out of shape, and my muscle memory is all but gone.. but I managed to get a few tricks. Boardslid the flat bar, rock fakie the qp, bs/fs/halfcab noseslide and fs 5050 on an 8” tall ledge. Nothing impressive at all, but I was pretty surprised and stoked I managed to land that much.
Impressive tricks to me! I hope you keep at it.
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Coming off a niggling injury, but everything just felt right today: new setup, baggy arse jeans, some nice cupsoles, a few new tricks in the works and loopholes … needless to say I had a smile on my dial!
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I havent skated for maybe 2-3 weeks (covid, bad weather, life) and this weekend I finally went both Saturday and Sunday. I expected to hate it for a solid hour before I got my legs back, but something clicked and both days were great. I even had a brand new board, which I usually hate.
So yeah, nothing special, but tricks were landed, slams were had, weather was nice, overall it felt good and today Im sore as fuck, but in a best kind of way.
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a guy on a scooter gave me unsolicited trick tips after he saw me land said trick.
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Switch back to Thunders from Indys. Skated great, pop felt so much better. :) Two kids approached me and asked for my phone number because their dad wanted it, who was hanging out on a park bench. The one kid did a Fortnite dance then ran away. I said "nah, I'm good" to the other, about 30 mins later they asked what looked like a teenage girl for her number. Felt like calling Chris Hansen.
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9th st is gross
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We are in the middle of moving. Took a break to show the local kids how to ollie and broke the tail on my deck. That’s a first for me. I wanted a new deck anyways.
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the session was pretty uneventful, i broke in some new bushings for old thunders.
only really notable thing that happened was a kid on a scooter telling me to loosen my trucks. like what the fuck? you ride a scooter. you dont skate. eat shit.
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It was great, was going for a kickflip nose slide but did a perfect kickflip crook insanely pinched, the worst part of the sesh was that two different girls i share a connection with where there and i had to manage that without making anything obvious.
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Have been having low back pain but taking cbd, stretching, and making myself skate. Got boba and walked/skated to a spot really far away. Forgot my wax at home but went to specific spot to do a banana slide. Found a small piece of wax on the ground, like the size of a pebble and I was able to get the banana slide and switch Slappy crook shove out. Smoked a blunt and left. Missed my bus, went into target to find Dickies, out of my size so I just went home but I was happy cause it was a good session and fucking warm out (about 85-90 F)
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the session was pretty uneventful, i broke in some new bushings for old thunders.
only really notable thing that happened was a kid on a scooter telling me to loosen my trucks. like what the fuck? you ride a scooter. you dont skate. eat shit.
Lol kids around here seem to be nicer. I had a little dude greeting me politely two days ago and when I said hi he told me I had „cool moves“. That was after he had witnessed the only halfway decent heelflip of my session.
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just rollin basically and enjoying the good weather. checking ollies, regular and switch. little slappy nose slides. felt good.
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Went to my local skated for twice as long as I usually do and finally landed the nollie tre. I find fakie tres very difficult and so I just figured the nolly one was off limits but today I tried it and it worked
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Went to a random park. Lots of younger dudes who weren't particularly great and didn't wear the "right" brands.
Younger dudes brought a BBQ to the park and grilled some shit up. Everyone having good time other than one kid who was pretty good. The good kid was pretty good was impatient, snakey, and just an all around dildo.
I was doing terrible, I ate shit pretty hard a few times, and the good kid was annoyed with me. I wasn't having the best time to say the least.
Younger dudes offered me some food. I had a bunch of cookies from a bakery in my car (I was there at closing and they gave me a full bag full of cookies). I gave the cookies to the younger dudes. They were stoked and I was stoked that they were stoked. Terrible session ended well.
I'm leaning the "cool" kids are actually pretty fucking lame. Everytime I've been to the park lately, it is way more fun without the "cool" people around.
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Tried a trick for the better part of an hour, kid shows up and watches me battling for a while then asks if i mind that he tries the same trick. I say hell no i dont and get kinda juiced when he almost makes it.
Well he gets it on like 3 tries then doesnt skate the obstacle at all anymore, i tried until i couldnt and went home empty. Am i wrong for feeling kind of pissed about it?
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Tried a trick for the better part of an hour, kid shows up and watches me battling for a while then asks if i mind that he tries the same trick. I say hell no i dont and get kinda juiced when he almost makes it.
Well he gets it on like 3 tries then doesnt skate the obstacle at all anymore, i tried until i couldnt and went home empty. Am i wrong for feeling kind of pissed about it?
are you upset with him or that you didnt land it?
He did the right thing by asking. Did he encourage you to land it as well?
And, not landing shit sucks, but also creates the drive to go back and get it next time.
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the session was pretty uneventful, i broke in some new bushings for old thunders.
only really notable thing that happened was a kid on a scooter telling me to loosen my trucks. like what the fuck? you ride a scooter. you dont skate. eat shit.
Lol kids around here seem to be nicer. I had a little dude greeting me politely two days ago and when I said hi he told me I had „cool moves“. That was after he had witnessed the only halfway decent heelflip of my session.
Haha they generally are.
Once a couple scooter kids stopped me at the park telling me I skated well with good style (I actually don’t) and were saying yeah dude it’s cos you skate good bearings, what bearings are those? Redz?
I literally didn’t know haha so I just laughed, thanked them, patted them on the shoulder and skated away.
They weren’t that impressed and never spoke to me again.
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Got a trick I’ve been working on for a minute, nagging injury wasn’t nagging, loopholes were slippery/ sliding, stoke was real!
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the session was pretty uneventful, i broke in some new bushings for old thunders.
only really notable thing that happened was a kid on a scooter telling me to loosen my trucks. like what the fuck? you ride a scooter. you dont skate. eat shit.
Lol kids around here seem to be nicer. I had a little dude greeting me politely two days ago and when I said hi he told me I had „cool moves“. That was after he had witnessed the only halfway decent heelflip of my session.
Haha they generally are.
Once a couple scooter kids stopped me at the park telling me I skated well with good style (I actually don’t) and were saying yeah dude it’s cos you skate good bearings, what bearings are those? Redz?
I literally didn’t know haha so I just laughed, thanked them, patted them on the shoulder and skated away.
They weren’t that impressed and never spoke to me again.
I had more nice kids lately who praised my skating. I was trying to kickflip a two stair and they encouraged me by telling me I would eventually land it. I didn‘t. :D
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Learnt BS flips on my spare mini board, proceeded to land a good 20 or more, but just can't crack the rollaway, keep stopping dead or going insect speed rolling out.
Sessioned them for over an hour, now my back hurts.
One of the least but most but least satisfying sessions of recent times, nice to learn a new flip trick relatively quickly, but if you can't roll away it doesn't really count yet lol.
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There were two young girls at the park that were ripping and had good etiquette - pretty stoked on that.
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Went to a super easy out ledge during my son's baseball practice. Snapped my deck getting 5050 on it. had to go back at night with 3 phone lights and get it on a freshie. I got it
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Went to Caesar Park in SJ, me up with 2 dudes I met Sunday. Pulled something in my upper leg, maybe my hip flexor not sure. Vibes were strong, body was not.
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Went to House Park with the homies, drank brews, did a no comply, and preceded to just put out a vibe.
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It was wet and cold this morning so I went to a covered schoolyard with what I believe was a virgin curb. I waxed it and it grinds fine, did a few fs 50/50s, then tried 5-0s (in vain) and bs 50/50, got a few shitty ones but stoked I figured out how to get onto the curb by slightly scooping the tail like for a bs 180 (which is kind of logical but it had never occurred to me). I also ollied the covered three stair and then it dried up just enough to session the two stair at the end of the session, and I got a nice kickflip in mild sleet. Went home stoked.
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my son went to skate school at my local, they open it up at the end for an hour before the next class starts so I was on a mission to get a solid session in. Not sure if that was the reason but I felt like I was skating a lot faster than I usually do. had the love seat out for most of the session but I always bring my cruiser/ curb board (passport 8.8, ace 44, 56 loopholes) to end the sesh on a good note. Didn't get time to practice all of my tricks, but was happy with the shit I was landing...
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Somebody cleaned the park; did some slappys, short mini session. It’s almost spring.
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I setup my board on the coping similar to how I learned bs 50-50 stall, but got on the board like fs 50-50. Holy shit I can’t even begin to think of how to bring it in. Maybe someday.
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I setup my board on the coping similar to how I learned bs 50-50 stall, but got on the board like fs 50-50. Holy shit I can’t even begin to think of how to bring it in. Maybe someday.
One hunnert percent leap of faith. Lean weight on back heel, turn in. Heel CANNOT be overstated. Too much weight on your toes or being to tentative can lead to pivoting on your toeside rear wheel, bringing the heelside wheel over the coping, onto the deck. Full hangup and instant flat bottom.
I mean there’s also a reason nobody does fs axle stalls- it’s way scarier than letting your momentum bring you in from a grind.
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I went to skate the school parking lot that I normally skate on nights and weekends too early and there were a couple cars still in the lot.
I just played around doing flatground instead of attacking the curbs. I landed a nollie flip after a drought of a few months and got close to switch flip again. Stoked.
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Got kicked out from 3 spots headed to the local, it was closesd super early and got kicked out. Went home sad
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Seem to have misplaced my varial flips and fakie v flips somewhere when I switched to a skinnier setup...its been the bane of the last couple sessions and has caused a few primo slams.
Today's session was more of that, the few that I did land were horrible- genuinely think that varial flips just look and work better (for me at least) on an 8.25+ board.
Shame as my kickflip and heelflips are pretty fire on a 7.75.
Scooter kids and mums everywhere, I was the only skater at the park which was fairly depressing...there needs to be some sort of conversion therapy to get these kids off scooters and onto boards, quite a few of them look old enough to know better.
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Grinded a flat bar for the first time in about 15 years. I have a lot of mental blocks on certain things since I’ve gotten back into skating, and that was a huge one. Just did about a dozen 5050s, some of them pretty shitty, but it was cool to go from complete panic to feeling the muscle memory start to come back.
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Our flatground diy spot is open again. There's this new ledge with mannypad next to it and I got bs nosegrind bs revert and fs nosegind over the pad. Good times.
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Was playing around and did the shittiest bs flip ever but I can’t remember the last time I landed one so I was kinda stoked.
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Figured out through YouTube that my lower back problem is really a hip problem that radiates pain. Been doing stretches to work it out and have been pain free ever since.
Slammed hard on a double sided curb because my friend waxed it too much, I ride rails and he doesn’t, slipped out onto my hip super hard.
Got a few Slappy feeble to boardslide to hurricanes. He was nose sliding and board sliding it. Session ended with us filming boardslide doubles on the curb, was super fun sliding at the same time, almost running into each other and stuff.
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For a while I’ve been jokingly saying that the only thing truly missing from the weeknight curb spot was a spine ramp. Tonight my prayers were answered when a couple dudes I’ve seen around brought one. For some reason spine ramps have always been my favorite skatepark obstacle. I was like the Wade Speyer of the local curb spot for one night
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I was planning to skate hard all Easter (we have Friday and Monday of) but rolled my ankle on a heelflip warming up yesterday.
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Finally waxed the park bench(concrete) and skated it properly, was able to do a few good bs 50-50s and noseslides there, but now that the wax is setting in I'm gonna try to learn all kinds of stuff. My friend got pretty beat and went home before this though, I guess the recent coldness was getting to him, not to mention he was skating a lot.
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Yesterday morning I took my 9 year old daughter to the school by our house and she learned how to kick turn on a small bank. She had been trying it the last couple sessions and could never make it all the way back down but yesterday she got it and we had a pretty cool moment of stoke together. I don’t think she is ever going to really skate more than just something to do with me but it was awesome seeing her get hyped on learning something that she had to work at. Luckily my wife was with us and got the clip. Then I had a flat ground session with my brother that got rained out after 15 minutes and ended with us going out for a couple beers so that was cool too.
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Went to the indoor park cause the weather was shit today. Played a game of skate on the ledge and lost, but locked into a back smith for the first time. After years of rolling up but not committing I finally 5050d the little 4 stair hubba in the last 5 minutes of the session. Treated myself to a guava jarritos on my way out, the perfect end to a perfect session.
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Got to skate with my cousin yesterday. We checked out a park and a local ledge spot. I did this pretty cool line at the ledge spot on the last try. My cousin gave me a suggestion of a line I should try and been thinking about it all day. I want to go back and film it.
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the kids at the park on houston were playing MBV on a big speaker
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skated the curb on Graham Ave and Meeker on the Greenpoint/Williamsburg border. Its typically frequented by old guys doing slappys. Always solo. it's like there is an understanding.
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new setup day means i paid hard a few times. super excited to skate the board again in two weeks after i heal up. it’s a sick board
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skated a steeper asphalt bank to parking block the other day. popped up and rolled away from a backside axel stall a few times right when i got there. went for one more, back truck kinda overshot so i tried to jump off my board but somehow had both feet land back on it(idk how) so wasn't ready to roll back in and immediately slipped back and landed straight on my tailbone lol. haven't had a slam like that in a few months, was not fun and my ass/lower back bone are still hurting. skating is always humbling
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Yesterday I almost ruptured my spleen trying to skate a gap in the wind without a warmup
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Tweaked my ankle for the first time in 11 months on the first BS flip of the session.
Walked it off but think it'll probably need a few days off and some babying for a couple of weeks.
Annoying AF but tbh i'm surprised i went 11 months since the last one...counting myself lucky it wasn't a full roll/fold.
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Bombed some hills at 7 am. Last one tried to give me speed wobbles but I pulled it - wobbles hit at peak speed so I'm glad I held on
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Hit the park early and was shortly joined by some dudes my age. We had a blast doing runs and talkin shit. This is why I love skateboarding. We are all skaters and everyone is cool if you are on a skateboard. Hit a curb spot after solo and had fun, the crusty ground brought back memories.
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The weather was perfect today. But my stomach caused some trouble because I knew that I am going to a shitty park. But I am glad if my homie and I find time together.
The park has a really negative vibe for me, since I stopped smoking weed. The locals there are full on negative, depressive, sad stoners without a job. There is that guy I used to hang out with a few years ago, but I had to stop because I can't stand moaning and complaining anymore. He quit skating because his ex girlfriend also skated (weird reason, but okay) and is now just sitting there, talking and getting high. The obstacles in the park are okay tho, just weird vibes from the people there.
And I think that's what caused my stomach pain.
Got a nice line through the park. Wheelie the pad, kickflip on flat, axle stall and noseslide the ledge. Went with my homie to another park and got the fakie pop shuv in the steep big bank. I felt like shit today but I am so fucking happy and thankful that I have a fulfilled and happy life now.
Gave my homie a hug, drove to my parents and gave them a hug and tomorrow I will see my girl and give her a hug and tell her how much she means to me.
Thanks for reading my book pals. Love ya all.
I send all your tweaked ankles some positive vibes.
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This thread has me on the vibe. Thank you pals.
Broke a board for the first time in a few years, and wanted to reframe the brain on tricks I can’t do/want to learn. Ripe age of 34breaking in the new stick, learning nollie flips as the back foot catch varietal (legally it’s rocket, but it ain’t looking illegal).
The vibe is hot.
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woke up super hungover. skated a pump track in the blazing sun for an hour or so with my cruiser setup. never skated one before, bike dads were kinda vibing but ended up gettin it all to myself and learned how to really get cookin. fun
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I went to the local park and it was filled with kids and tweakers, so I went to a different park that's usually empty. I slammed hard in a bowl and fucked up my ribs AGAIN and broke my glasses, so I just gave up and went back to bed.
lol so it turns out I actually broke three ribs and kept making it worse on myself. So I finally took it easy and spent the winter resting and getting fatter.
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Woke up feeling a little down, the sky was grey and it looked the rain. I said fuck it and went out anyway, opting to leave the bike and push around away from downtown, exploring a bit. I went by a friend's house, she wasn't home so I wrote a note, folded it into a paper airplane and tosses it up on her balcony, then I cruised to a skatepark I haven't checked out in awhile. The sun came out, I ran into a friend, and we skated for about three hours. We landed a satisfying amount of the midrange tricks tried and on my way home I found a big cache of music equipment on the curb. I got a bunch of boutique pedals, a sampler, and a harmonizer pedal, pretty sweet. Now I'm sitting on the balcony in a good mood, in the warm evening air, thank goodness I went skating.
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Woke up feeling a little down, the sky was grey and it looked the rain. I said fuck it and went out anyway, opting to leave the bike and push around away from downtown, exploring a bit. I went by a friend's house, she wasn't home so I wrote a note, folded it into a paper airplane and tosses it up on her balcony, then I cruised to a skatepark I haven't checked out in awhile. The sun came out, I ran into a friend, and we skated for about three hours. We landed a satisfying amount of the midrange tricks tried and on my way home I found a big cache of music equipment on the curb. I got a bunch of boutique pedals, a sampler, and a harmonizer pedal, pretty sweet. Now I'm sitting on the balcony in a good mood, in the warm evening air, thank goodness I went skating.
Somebody’s on a guitar forum unstoked on their significant other/parent getting rid of their stuff.
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Woke up feeling a little down, the sky was grey and it looked the rain. I said fuck it and went out anyway, opting to leave the bike and push around away from downtown, exploring a bit. I went by a friend's house, she wasn't home so I wrote a note, folded it into a paper airplane and tosses it up on her balcony, then I cruised to a skatepark I haven't checked out in awhile. The sun came out, I ran into a friend, and we skated for about three hours. We landed a satisfying amount of the midrange tricks tried and on my way home I found a big cache of music equipment on the curb. I got a bunch of boutique pedals, a sampler, and a harmonizer pedal, pretty sweet. Now I'm sitting on the balcony in a good mood, in the warm evening air, thank goodness I went skating.
Somebody’s on a guitar forum unstoked on their significant other/parent getting rid of their stuff.
100% , it was the dude's brother, he was carrying out more stuff as i rolled up and said his bro moved out over a year ago and was given a deadline to move his gear but didn't. Bad situation, but what am I gonna do, there was already some lady in a suburban loading up the rice cooker and everything she could get her hands on.
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went to a basketball court to skate flat. have an alright sesh. dumbass toddler comes and throws a handful of rocks at me and i proceed to eat shit. i call out the mom and she gives me a feeble sorry. there were too many rocks so i decided to dip. called the mom and her crew bitches on my way out for not disciplining their little shit and not trying to help me clear out the rocks
went to another spot but it was a bust, too many people walking around
found a tennis court and practiced kickies and back 180s over a cone
fuckin sucked
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Skated a couple hours before work. Scraped up a couple passable fs flips.
Adequate.
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Woke up feeling a little down, the sky was grey and it looked the rain. I said fuck it and went out anyway, opting to leave the bike and push around away from downtown, exploring a bit. I went by a friend's house, she wasn't home so I wrote a note, folded it into a paper airplane and tosses it up on her balcony, then I cruised to a skatepark I haven't checked out in awhile. The sun came out, I ran into a friend, and we skated for about three hours. We landed a satisfying amount of the midrange tricks tried and on my way home I found a big cache of music equipment on the curb. I got a bunch of boutique pedals, a sampler, and a harmonizer pedal, pretty sweet. Now I'm sitting on the balcony in a good mood, in the warm evening air, thank goodness I went skating.
Somebody’s on a guitar forum unstoked on their significant other/parent getting rid of their stuff.
100% , it was the dude's brother, he was carrying out more stuff as i rolled up and said his bro moved out over a year ago and was given a deadline to move his gear but didn't. Bad situation, but what am I gonna do, there was already some lady in a suburban loading up the rice cooker and everything she could get her hands on.
Damn! Good for you
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@switchfakie sorry to hear that, hope the next one's gooder
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Been skating a new park for me in my area and using my Dane 1 with Bones rough riders.
Last night one of the skaters there first bumped me in the way out and said ‘have a good evening sir.’
Such a nice young man raised to respect his elders.
In fact, everyone was really nice. Where are the bad vibes? So confused…
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A kid said my helmet was cool like &&. Bro just let me be 30 in peace bro i’m begging you :'(
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New board, new shoes, warmed up , skated flat then cruised the rest of the park. Almost learned a new one but it was hot so I got overheated and quit trying.
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Rained all day yesterday. I had set up a new 8.25 with some new mag lights and 48mm wheels to change it up from my big heavy curb deck. Had a blast doing different 180s and stuff over a crack in my garage. Started messing around with switch. Switch used to come easy to me, now 20 plus years later, no. Breaking in new trucks/bushings is unpleasant.
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Saturday I tried 360 flips the whole session, no success.
Today I tried slappy crooks to regular the whole session, no success.
There's days like these I guess.
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First time out in 2 weeks yesterday. Slaps were ok, mini ramp game was 100% organic, grass fed, cruelty free, weak sauce.
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Last night I got humbled by a fucking three stair, lol
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Skateparks make me feel old but nose mannies on the box still make me feel gold
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Tried some tricks, scuffed my kicks
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Had a no flip Sunday session, grinds and slides only. Relaxing.
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Shook off the cobwebs after a week not skating. Did a slappy crook I was proud of, and was trying to get better looking front boards (my nemesis)
Contemplating a switch only day next time I skate
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did my first proper 180 kickturn on a fairly large concrete quarter pipe. just had a mental block with that 'trick'. kinda did my first heelflip too but it was pretty sketch. scooterkids were twats.
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Shook off the cobwebs after a week not skating. Did a slappy crook I was proud of, and was trying to get better looking front boards (my nemesis)
Contemplating a switch only day next time I skate
Lol I was literally doing slappy crooks and front boards only today as well.
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Shook off the cobwebs after a week not skating. Did a slappy crook I was proud of, and was trying to get better looking front boards (my nemesis)
Contemplating a switch only day next time I skate
Lol I was literally doing slappy crooks and front boards only today as well.
Such exquisite taste
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Had a session after work at the school down the street, just skated the red curb out front for 30-40 mins. My backs been killing me but I managed to get a fakie front nose to regular, fakie, and shove out. My roll aways are whack but I blame that partly on having sub 49 mm wheels, but way better than last sessions attempts for sure. It feels cool cause it kind of feels like a switch back tail if you lock in just right. For the record I’ve never done a ssbsts
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Had a session at a local skatepark and chatting it up with old friends and new skaters still skating and re-learning stuff for fun on the weekends. Beers came out for the old heads on a blazing sunday and beginner kids learning to roll in and feel the park out with their pops or chaperone on the smaller side of the park. Tried to warm up and play skate to get the bag of flatground tricks going, and got skunked first go in like 5 minutes. I’ve been skating super loose trucks just to challenge myself a bit more, as well as having a bit more control with turning and landing softer to avoid wheel bite. I managed to skate for like 30 minutes after and landed a switch frontside flip and switch heel, after not doing those tricks in 4-5 years.
Lost about 50+ pounds after being close to 300 lbs during peak covid times (my heaviest). Hoping to use skateboarding at the park, local curb, or on the streets (if there is filmer slap pals out there who films other slap pals/newbs) as my outlet to creatively and physically escape from everything negative happening in my personal/family life.
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Skated to the spot
Put down my bag to warm up
Then the rain started
A tragic
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Went to a skatepark a bit out of the way because I wanted a spot to practice Blunt Fakie, my normal skate group also hates on this place a bit because there's a lot of beginners and people who frequent a different skate shop (lol). Everyone was chill, I landed a few Blunt to rock to Fakie and Back Tails so it was a good session. Some guy gave me an almost brand new set up 55mm conical full spitfires so I was hyped.
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Son was at skate school at my local DIY, meaning I get about 45 of free time after they finish up and before the next class starts. I don’t know why but these sessions always make me skate faster than I usually would. Son dropped in on a medium sized ramp for the first time so I got hyped and dropped in on the biggest ramp in the park (we sort of made a deal a while back that I’d do it), gave me butterflies and I was mad pumped afterwards.
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Did some find frontside heel flips for the first time in like 15 years
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Did a quick switch only session (I never skate switch)
Feels like learning to skate all over, both the good and bad
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Only skated the skatepark in my neighborhood this weekend. A few hours on Saturday, and two separate sessions yesterday; One in the morning and one shorter session in the evening. I would’ve kept skating longer but both of my knees started aching. I’ll attribute that to getting older
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I slammed on my elbow. And piled shit into a frame for a cement quarter pipe.
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Skated on a sore knee I should have rested.
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skated cecil in philly today for the first time
i don't know why people even bother to go there anymore, the flatground isnt good anymore bc there are 0.5-1 inch wide cracks between the marble tiles everywhere. old videos make it look like a big plaza but its really small. if you push three times you'd immediately get to the other side
i think its historical significance is the only reason people chill there. if we took that away, it would just be another shitty flatground spot
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people haven’t been skating cecil that long, really only after city hall died iirc
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The last one was a good one, first i found a pair of leo romero's emerica at the thrift store for 2 dollars that felt perfect riding, then i have started teaching my wife's doughter to skate, some pushing around, tic-tacing, going up and down a bank and droping from curbs and she got hyped a lot, and lastly i redicovered an old spot in a new way and had a satisfying line for a dessert :)
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skated cecil in philly today for the first time
i don't know why people even bother to go there anymore, the flatground isnt good anymore bc there are 0.5-1 inch wide cracks between the marble tiles everywhere. old videos make it look like a big plaza but its really small. if you push three times you'd immediately get to the other side
i think its historical significance is the only reason people chill there. if we took that away, it would just be another shitty flatground spot
I take this back completely. I’ve been skating there everyday since this post and I think it’s made me a better skater, learning to just deal with feeling uncomfortable all the time with fat ass cracks and shit all over the ground
Also because my ankles got used to it, it feels a lot better. I have most of my tricks back so I’m pretty stoked with the lessons learned from exclusively skating shitty flat
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cecil is a good meet up spot
obstacles come and go, its fun when they had the lil newspaper box you could grind/do tricks over
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I miss the days of skating Cecil after work before dinner and Love Park after 10:30 every weeknight.
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Broke my hanger on a pop shuv after a few slappies.
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Hail Satan
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Windy, overcast and a bit chilly. Skatepark was empty except all the dirt that was blown into the bowl. Didn't feel super pumped, but figured it was better than not skating so I swept one section. Using Ace instead of my usual Indy, turned a bit quicker and I missed the coping on a backside grind. I put my ass onto the coping harder than I ever have, causing a sharp pain any time that part of my ass touches anything.
I sat down for a few minutes and figured I'd just go super mellow. Hit a rock in the pool and flatted one of my wheels.
15 minutes after I arrived, I left.
My ass crack is now so purple it is almost black.
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Trying to learn back blunts on curbs. Did a few very sloppy ones, then tried some front lips and snapped my board.
Oh well
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Overall good but short. Wasn't going to skate cause the wife was taking a walk and then waiting in the car. So I warmed up and a buddy stopped by and threw out our customary tre first try. So I land it first try nice and tight. Just enough of a challenge to push me to start pulling some shit. Landed a b/s 5-0 off the ramp to ledge. Felt good. Landed a few other things of the ramp to ledge like a nice nose slide, f/s 50-50 and 180 50-50 fake 180 out, and a knee-high varial. Just overall a good session. Really stoked just wish I could have stayed later..
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landed my first kf front board. kinda moved around a bit on the rail, but the landing was decent. not great, but im stoked i got one.
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Surprised myself by doing a trick that I didn't think I would be able to do at a park I hadn't skated in three years and car crash rollover fall three tries later scraping up my shoulders and tumbling on my head slightly trying to do it better.
Win some lose some is the game.
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after nearly ten years of not being able to do them anymore, i finally managed to relearn all four hardflips on my last session and was able to set all of them (some first try) in a game of skate. pretty stoked.
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Landed primo on a fakie varial flip and got shot backwards, grazed my elbows and lower back falling backward and bouncing off the floor.
Then I got right back up and landed a buttery smooth one... fuck you primo.
Other than that it's not been a bad couple of sessions rehabbing my rolled ankle...got a few flip tricks back but most nollie stuff is still off the table.
IDK why but primo on varial flips always seem way worse.
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Yesterday, I skated Manana with my son. I had a pretty bad night’s sleep so my expectations were somewhat low.
There was a little ripping grom that got my stoke levels up that I cheered on and after he busted out a leveled out double flip, I backed him up with an impossible fly out off a ramp. I made sure to thank little man because I had been trying to get it for the last three sessions and kept coming close.
My son got a nice ollie finally, dropped in on a bigger section and he skated pretty hard for the two hours we were there.
Afterwards, we got slush floats.
Oh yeah, I yelled out my truck window as I was driving off at two mormon missionaries to leave a woman alone that looked exasperated but was trying to be polite about them harassing her.
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Bizarre one today. I went to a skatepark I sometimes sneak out to for lunch. Its usually dead during the week but I forgot school is out for summer. Rolled up on crew of pre-pubescent scooters. I tried to play nice. Then I pulled everyone aside and explained how it was going to work. If you see me in the deepend don't roll into the shallow end as me and 200lb middle age body will be heading that way in seconds. Then the mothers jump in and thank for me explaining the deal. All good until one scoot kid rolled in on a little dude who smacked his helmet less head on the concrete flat bottom. Told you guys to look out for each other...
Anyway the mothers basically stopped the scoot kids when they saw I was about to go, which was nice but then I had all these eyes on me. Stupid pressure. I just wanted some lunch time grinds but I suddenly felt like I had to put on a demo each run to justify stopping their fun.
Strangely, I couldn't fuck up. I landed all my shit. Even some shit I haven't done properly in a long time. And strung together some satisfying lines. I kind of got bored of landing everything so easily hahah and so I bailed... I guess its breakfast sessions at this park for the rest of summer break.
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Bizarre one today. I went to a skatepark I sometimes sneak out to for lunch. Its usually dead during the week but I forgot school is out for summer. Rolled up on crew of pre-pubescent scooters. I tried to play nice. Then I pulled everyone aside and explained how it was going to work. If you see me in the deepend don't roll into the shallow end as me and 200lb middle age body will be heading that way in seconds. Then the mothers jump in and thank for me explaining the deal. All good until one scoot kid rolled in on a little dude who smacked his helmet less head on the concrete flat bottom. Told you guys to look out for each other...
Anyway the mothers basically stopped the scoot kids when they saw I was about to go, which was nice but then I had all these eyes on me. Stupid pressure. I just wanted some lunch time grinds but I suddenly felt like I had to put on a demo each run to justify stopping their fun.
Strangely, I couldn't fuck up. I landed all my shit. Even some shit I haven't done properly in a long time. And strung together some satisfying lines. I kind of got bored of landing everything so easily hahah and so I bailed... I guess its breakfast sessions at this park for the rest of summer break.
Great story. I bet these kids and their mums will be talking about the mysterious gallant bowl ripper for years to come. These are the small rewards we get for our hard work from time to time, enjoy the moment. The next time you might be eating shit on a death pebble in front of a soccer team of teenage girls.
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This is kind of embarrassing but the last time I actually skated and tried tricks at a spot was in November of 2016, right before I got sober. Since then I’ve briefly stepped on a friend’s board every now and then (like 3-4 times tops in the past 6-7 years) and maybe tried or did one or two flatland tricks and handed back their board to them. I haven’t owned a skateboard since 2016. I know that sounds terrible, but I had a full time crappy job and other distractions keeping me busy and I just had no motivation to skate, I got pretty fucking overweight too, I was up to 215lbs for awhile. That’s sort of what got me to start lurking on slap, I’ve started to lose weight, got my weight down to 189lbs so far and I’ve been really missing skateboarding lately, I just need to lose a little more weight and buy a complete board set up and go skateboarding again. For the longest time when I first got sober I didn’t miss skateboarding at all but now it’s coming back. I just want to be at a healthy weight to be able to enjoy skateboarding I won’t ever be able to skate anywhere near like I use to but I can live that as long as I can atleast cruise around a little and Ollie up curb I’ll be happy!
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Went to a random park in Austin,Tx. Saw one other dude in the parking lot with his dog. Thought he looked like figgy (shitty haircut) and entered the park. About 15 minutes into my sesh the dude takes his shirt off and I realize it’s figgy! Proceeded to eat shit on the next three tricks and went home. 10/10 would skate with figgy again
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My kickflips have been disgusting for the past few months. Mobbed, rocket, ghost pop, every issue. Garbage.
I just neglected them for a while.
Last sesh I decided it was time to re-refine my kickflips, went out and did nothing but kickflips for 2 hours.
Happy to say by the end of the sesh I was finally getting nice pop, height, and catch again.
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On vacation with my girlfriend surrounded by farmland and there isn’t a skatepark anywhere close, but there is a paved trail. Thankfully gravel isn’t an issue.
She bought a pair of rollerblades (hasn’t skated for a decade), so we rolled four miles on the trail to get her comfortable. I’ve not just pushed and rolled that much in a long time. Felt my push getting stronger which was nice. Popped some mannies, some ollies. But mostly just went for speed and support.
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My kickflips have been disgusting for the past few months. Mobbed, rocket, ghost pop, every issue. Garbage.
I just neglected them for a while.
Last sesh I decided it was time to re-refine my kickflips, went out and did nothing but kickflips for 2 hours.
Happy to say by the end of the sesh I was finally getting nice pop, height, and catch again.
this is gonna be my next session for sure. watching that horrible jeffwonsong kickflip in his thread got me motivated.
last skate i did a smith on a box and some ollies and then went home.
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Yesterday, I skated Manana with my son. I had a pretty bad night’s sleep so my expectations were somewhat low.
There was a little ripping grom that got my stoke levels up that I cheered on and after he busted out a leveled out double flip, I backed him up with an impossible fly out off a ramp. I made sure to thank little man because I had been trying to get it for the last three sessions and kept coming close.
My son got a nice ollie finally, dropped in on a bigger section and he skated pretty hard for the two hours we were there.
Afterwards, we got slush floats.
Oh yeah, I yelled out my truck window as I was driving off at two mormon missionaries to leave a woman alone that looked exasperated but was trying to be polite about them harassing her.
I love those days when I start out heavy and not feeling it, but then get hyped once I warm up and land something. Also: mmmmmm slush floats!
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This is kind of embarrassing but the last time I actually skated and tried tricks at a spot was in November of 2016, right before I got sober. Since then I’ve briefly stepped on a friend’s board every now and then (like 3-4 times tops in the past 6-7 years) and maybe tried or did one or two flatland tricks and handed back their board to them. I haven’t owned a skateboard since 2016. I know that sounds terrible, but I had a full time crappy job and other distractions keeping me busy and I just had no motivation to skate, I got pretty fucking overweight too, I was up to 215lbs for awhile. That’s sort of what got me to start lurking on slap, I’ve started to lose weight, got my weight down to 189lbs so far and I’ve been really missing skateboarding lately, I just need to lose a little more weight and buy a complete board set up and go skateboarding again. For the longest time when I first got sober I didn’t miss skateboarding at all but now it’s coming back. I just want to be at a healthy weight to be able to enjoy skateboarding I won’t ever be able to skate anywhere near like I use to but I can live that as long as I can atleast cruise around a little and Ollie up curb I’ll be happy!
Hell yeah dude. Respect for getting sober; that's a hard road. (Or a crusty asphalt spot? Anyway...) Ever hear the expression "worthy now?" Get the board today. There's nothing like the feeling.
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I was so pissed off that my coworker was being a massive bitch that I couldn’t even get myself in the mood to skate.
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Oh yeah and my actual sesh, right...
I've been trying to get all 8 180s, but there are a couple that I can't ever land. Started out with switch frontside, and then nollie backside on a bank. Got a little psyched. Then spent the rest of the session battling nollie front 180s. (Switch half cab? Terminology kills me.) Never got one. Nice day though.
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Some coworkers and I had a flatground session inside of work at 6:30 this morning while on the clock. I can’t remember the last time I flipped my board before 8am. It must’ve been when I was still in college 11 years ago. Found out Blundstones are pretty skateable as far as work boots go even though my skate shoes were within reaching distance
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I’m skateboarding at an all time low. I have no idea what’s wrong because my flat ground is in point.
If anything other than a manny pad is involved I’m going to slam or whatever.
Stiff af. Weak. Idk.
I heard Mace Windu is alive. Fucking Disney is so confused. There’s no way someone can get whacked with a lightsaber and be slightly damaged.
I’m 44 tomorrow.
I hope people aren’t bummed that I’m not like hey tomorrow is my shit. What you getting for me?
It’s just another day. Im not calling anyone. Phone works two ways
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Roommate and decided we’re gonna do a slappy/curb edit. Both of us went out today, both got clips. Landed my line and got the clip, then asked my roommate to film me doing a fast, long slappy crook. Proceeded to slam and roll my ankle real good.
On the train ride home I accidentally deleted my clip
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Man, that is bummer about the clip. Take it easy and heal up fast.
Happy Birthday @Uncle Flea I would like to skate some flat or banks with you.
Saturday I went a bit skating with my girl. She got a pretty good push for a beginner and it was awesome to cruise through the streets with her and show her my fave tricks.
Sunday I met my homie at our local park. We are like the last of our age group that still regularly skate (we both are mostly sober and have a regular job and other adult responsiblities) and it is always a pleasure to skate together. We weren't feeling the local park and went to a double bank where we both got 2 clips.
The spot:
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Stubbed my little toe and bruised the shit out of it when I was shambling around my flat lastnight, so took it easy this session, some tricks were deffo off - you don't realise the role your pinky toe plays until it hurts!
On the plus side - It put my front foot out of action for quite a few flip tricks, so I had a go at tres instead as they're 90% back foot - actually started to get somewhere with them which was rewarding...sometimes being forced into sessioning a certain trick or feature can pay off.
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I've been skating a lot in the past few weeks after a long 4+ year hiatus. I usually start by warming up in the garage if my girlfriends car isnt there and then move it out to the alleyway I live on, followed by the curb spot down the street and then the ledge spot on the edge of my neighborhood and downtown.
I'm super rusty, but after battling for kickflips again, I'm getting those more consistently and am able to start relearning more things. Got tre flips and switch heels back last session. Stoked!
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threw together a mostly fresh complete with an 8.5 Real F1 stamped II, so the shape is nice. Some loophole v cut 56mm- these things are sick, along with some fresh quantums, riding almost to the axle 159 hollows
Had a session at the skate park for an hour or so, had fun practicing stalls and shit that I never really do. I chilled for a few hours then skated this tall curb, prob 6-8 inches height, and it's CURVED. So I'm throwing slappies on it and feeling pretty good. It's lightly waxed and not skated much so it's smelling like fresh pool coping with the burn. I figure I'm gonna do an old dude like across the spot, heel flip, manual the pad, power slide the painted handicap spots, 180, half cab 180, 5-0 slappy the curb. I do it a handful of times but get caught with wheel bite riding off the tall curb every time. So I keep going to get this stupid line and the manual does me in. I ride it out and I'm gonna lose it if I don't try a 180 out off the pad, which I've never done but it made sense in the moment. I start to land it into switch and just skid out straight to my butt and drop a nasty back/shoulder twist. I get up do the rest of the line, land a monster slappy 5-0 blah blah blah. my back, neck, and shoulder are trashed and I can't do a damn thing about it.
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It was pretty frickin good actually.
I’ve got a perfect line from my house to my no comply zone down like I was a teen again.
The only thing that could make it better is if I got switch tre off the curb instead of fakie heel.
I found a two up two down with a low hydrant a few months ago which I’m going to skate after dark.
I saw this kid there who looks like Pops filming there once. I couldn’t get my family to pull over to say hi.
I feel like it’s important to introduce yourself to people who actually film in the street.
Never know they might get you into a friends section?
It’s a high traffic area.
I’m about to go to skate rn. Looking for a hill
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I've been having a cold for the past week so I have been taking some cough medicine for that. This medicine has been getting me really high and its just the over the counter stuff. Went skating and I was high as a kite. I wasn't getting my warm up tricks as consistent as I wanted so I wanted to leave. I don't know why but I threw out a kick flip crook on a ledge and surprisingly I got in it. A couple tries later I landed it, went to my moms places and hung out with my baby niece.
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A friend wanted to go to this spot downtown close where I live yesterday, and when I drove up to it i noticed a bunch a skater sessioning a nearby spot, and the spot I was going to was a bit further so I had to pass by them, and when I got close I realised it was the Sour team and a few local skaters, so I stopped and joined them and called my friend over.
I know a bunch of them, growing up riding for Junkyard who started Sweet which became Sour - and I also was Josefs skate teacher when he was in the skateboard gymnasium (we are from the same town) and I know himfrom growing up as a local kid in the park as well. There was a also Simon Hallberg who rides for Polar and Fille, who rides for WKND. They where filming with Fritte for his new stuff.
Spent a few hours with them skating flat while one of the guys was trying to get a tricks. Watching Gustav skate flat is surreal - so way above anyone else. They are staying in my hometown the rest of the weekend and then gonna be at this DIY thats a few minutes from my house that has a contest on saturday,so probably gonna run into them again.
Unexpected session for sure :D
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Drove an hour to the park, got there at 615am. Heels were on fire from the start (heel spurs and plantar fac are not fun) Skated like shit. Tried to flip my board after I was already tired. Nothing was working and everything was hurting. Sweat non-stop for about an hour and a half. Drank almost a gallon of water and didn’t piss. Slammed hard right at the end of the session, mostly because I was tired.
Was better than being at work though.
Went to a new local shop afterwards, the guys that run it are cool.
Going to skate some curbs today.
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Did a four flip trick line, first go, and first tricks of the session.
That's a rare occurence these days, typically no one was around to witness this once in a blue moon event.
Then it took me like 20 mins to land a half cab flip which i normally have down within a couple tries... consistently inconsistent as per usual. Then I got into doing some fakie BS 360 ollies, never usually do them but got a couple quite satisfying ones down with minimal reverting.
Very tired legs from my mammoth tre flip sessions earlier in the week, my quad in my popping leg is deffo sore.
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I did a kickflip without wearing my knee brace last session and it really kinda bummed me out. It felt so nice and natural without my movement being restricted by the brace, but I can't get past the mental block of actually skating without it because I'm really afraid of re-injury.
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I did a kickflip without wearing my knee brace last session and it really kinda bummed me out. It felt so nice and natural without my movement being restricted by the brace, but I can't get past the mental block of actually skating without it because I'm really afraid of re-injury.
How long have you been skating with a brace? I have some kind of developmental or genetic issue where my kneecaps just fucking love popping out of the socket. Happened to me about 3 or 4 times to each knee over the last few decades of skating. I wear braces on both knees now for years and I absolutely can't skate without them, I feel naked and vulnerable without them. Maybe some more time acclimating to them will help?
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Also bs 180ed a 3 stair which I haven’t done in 10 years at least.
Awesome. Bet that felt great
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I did a kickflip without wearing my knee brace last session and it really kinda bummed me out. It felt so nice and natural without my movement being restricted by the brace, but I can't get past the mental block of actually skating without it because I'm really afraid of re-injury.
How long have you been skating with a brace? I have some kind of developmental or genetic issue where my kneecaps just fucking love popping out of the socket. Happened to me about 3 or 4 times to each knee over the last few decades of skating. I wear braces on both knees now for years and I absolutely can't skate without them, I feel naked and vulnerable without them. Maybe some more time acclimating to them will help?
It's been about 2 years now. It's funny, I injured it while wearing it once on a careless bail of a hippy jump (of all things), so it's not like it makes the joint invincible. I definitely feel safer and more confident with it on, but now I can't help but wonder if my kickflips would all feel that good without the brace. I know for sure I'd rather feel stable in doing everything else, but man... that kickflip...
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Had 2 weeks off to let an ankle injury rest. Met a mate and went to a skatepark we both really enjoy, but its 50/50 whether its going to be a great session or filled with 50 scooter kids. Ended up being the first and basically had the place to ourselves.
Was worried was going to be a bit rusty but everything clicked straight away. Did a bunch of tricks and then started to mess around with some new ones. Couple of locals showed up and had a really good session all together trying some fun dumb stuff like tail stall shuv to tail on a quarter.
Last run before having to leave got a mini ramp run with like 3 new tricks, fs disaster backside revert, 180 no comply disaster, and fakie 5-0 grind in forward. Left straight after that and bombed a hill to perfectly time our bus.
Mate set up a whatsapp group with the locals we met and going to skate with them again tomorrow. Proper feel good session, made all the better because it could have gone the other way and been 2 hours of feeling sketchy on my board and struggling with basics
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After 6 years of being in this city I finally hit the tall 20 feet long curved ledge the manual pad at the skatepark; landed a nice noseslide. At least 40 tries till the make and ate shit 2-3 times.
Next weekend I'll bigspin out of that sucker
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Bought some Ace Af-1 44s, rolled up to the spot (school several hours outside of regular time) , get out of my car and grab my board, a side door opens and someone says "nope, not today!"
Went home and did laundry before my wife came home.
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Last sesh was in my dreams. I rolled up and broke a hanger, then I woke up.
I rarely remember my dreams but I still know that it was an interesting set up to say the least, the wheels somehow covered the whole length of the truck, they were orange and thick.
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Showed up at my local DIY today a day there was about 15 dudes over 30, Kristin Svitak and friends, good session
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Skated my local DIY yesterday, We held our second anual event there (first one after we got a permit) - bunch of Sour dudes showed up and skated. Made an edit of it, sorry you have to watch me push to it first though 😅
Great day though!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cgq4mYIjMiI
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Trick tip thread for 5050 back no comply out + @cosmicgypsies example https://imgur.com/a/p4SkgkZ got me inspired/jealous like hey I used to do that trick I'm gonna relearn it. Morning session parks a bit wet, maybe 4th try max put my foot down to no comply on the edge of the ledge but slip so my heel hits the ground while my toes are pressed against the side of the ledge, big hot pocket, didn't even fall over or anything prob didn't look like anything happened if somebody saw it. Go home now hours later weird pain down the front of my shin and can't seem to lift my big toe. That's what you get for trying copy someone.
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Skated my local DIY yesterday, We held our second anual event there (first one after we got a permit) - bunch of Sour dudes showed up and skated. Made an edit of it, sorry you have to watch me push to it first though 😅
Great day though!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cgq4mYIjMiI
Just watch this edit instead. Great day!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cgr4qEpI8ZT
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Had a fun lill session yesterday evening.
I just wanted to break in my new shoes so I sticked to my basics. Everything worked kinda good.
Then the park suddenly was flooded with lill kids and parents on inline skates. I tried to zigzag between them but it went from fun to frustration.
I rolled back to my backpack and in-between i pop a FS shuv, landing primo. I fly forward hitting the concrete with my fist between my rips and the ground..
Today I feel awful. Not sure if they are broken or bruised.
Gonna have a scan later..
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After 6 years of being in this city I finally hit the tall 20 feet long curved ledge the manual pad at the skatepark; landed a nice noseslide. At least 40 tries till the make and ate shit 2-3 times.
Next weekend I'll bigspin out of that sucker
update on my own post:
Couldn't skate this weekend, being a dad got in the way, bigspin out still waiting
Also last friday had a medical check cause of work, everything good except I'm in my heaviest weight ever and somehow haven´t lose tricks...yet
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I have worked on a line for a month. Got one clip early on but was not fully satisfied and wanted to clean it up. But instead of coming closer I got worse and worse so I called it quits today. Somehow it sucks to surrender but I feel like it’s time to move on. I have to change my board anyway and then need to break it in. Maybe I‘ll come back one day to finish the job.
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Hurt my ankle a bit landing the trick, which is kinda funny.
I also broke my own superstitious rule and refilmed the trick, which ended up with me hurting myself. Should have just taken the first land lol.
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Slappy Sunday Funday! But turned into day drinking because it was too hot by like 11 AM.
Got smoked trying to switch 50 the ride-on rainbow rail at the DIY.
Got even more smoked hitting the Zions Bank curbs.
Got totally smoked at bar. Ate $20 worth of Del Taco. Tummy hurts today.
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I heel bruised, it was six weeks ago, and I only just started walking on my heel again two weeks ago..
Skating sucks!
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Haven't skated much recently got out yesterday though. I gotta be the only few people in the world doing nollie front boards on ledges lol.
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I heel bruised, it was six weeks ago, and I only just started walking on my heel again two weeks ago..
Skating sucks!
Fuck. I had a very positive skate session on Saturday but midway ended up heeling the pavement hard. Continued skating through it but now im tippy toeing and got a bruise low ankle/heel visible.
Google doctor got me with a possible bone bruise and your time frame sounds like what I had heard. Skating man.
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I mashed across town just now.
It was glorious. I did some tricks into the hill some tourists flimed a hill bomb. No one asked if I wanted to see and I did but whatever.
I picked up the trash at my spot. The town workers saw me and smiled.
Everyone loves me I’m stoke skateboarding is ok to do in public now.
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Someone brought the replica of the curved metal ledge that AVE switch bs noseblunt to the Hb Rec Park. Its a lot higher and longer than I realized. I was trying to front hurricane it but couldn't really get on it. The sesh was still fun cuz Vincent Milou rolled up and some dude told him he should kickflip front tail it and he gave him a funny look. I want to go back and get that trick.
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Yesterday I rode my bike to the park at about 7:00 in the morning. There was fortunately only one other person there. They were friendly, but I cannot easily interact with other people so we just stayed at opposite ends, doing our own thing. I've skated less than 10 times the past 3 years so I'm just tryna relearn basics and get a sense of confidence and comfort on the board again so I mostly just did front boards and 50-50s on this curb section for about an hour and a half. It was fun and I was skating faster, sliding longer, and rolling out of them by the time I started getting a bit tired. Hopefully I can make it into a bit of a routine.
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working on this maneuver
(https://i.ibb.co/f84rqbz/marty.gif) (https://ibb.co/1s8R73t)
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a few krrrrrss and one or two crack-skkkssss
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Went to a new park at 6am. Picked up a ton of trash left over from the night crew. Laughed at the doubled sided curb feature that is 3” high and made from ultra flakey concrete. Made some new friends. Skated like shit. Standard session for me.
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I saw a ghost or something.
I was hauling ass through town coming back from the store. I had a small jug o milk and candy bars.
Suddenly I saw a flash of colours. It was pink then green. Like a sliver of light. It was similar to a baseball card hologram.
Then it was gone. I focused in on the bench and I saw a pack of cigarettes. Marlboro 27s.
I said I wonder. I walked up and that shit was full.
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Today's session started off fun, but there are like there are about 6 dudes who frequent the park who are complete fucking ass-hats. I'd guess they're anywhere from twenty-two to mid-30s. They are too old to skate the park in such a shitty manner.
They skate like 8 years olds who haven't learned the rules of the park. But instead of it being from not knowing better, they seem to think the rules don't apply to them. This seems really common among dudes who were slightly better than I was at my peak.
One dude tonight was trying a few runs, but he'd missed a trick and instead of being like, "Welp, that sucks my turn is over," he'd snake everyone and started again immediately.
The same dude would miss his manual trick, hit the ramp behind the manual pad (knowing there were people queuing up to skate the manual pad from direction he had first tried to skate it), and then just try again going against traffic not giving a fuck if he ran into someone else.
One dude, seems to think the park being crowded gives him an excuse to never wait for his turn. Just snake everyone and skate the entire park even though everyone else skates as if it was divided into fourths when it is packed. There are a few people who can skate the whole park but they go out of their way to find breaks in the traffic rather than just plowing over people.
The same dude as a above sees a little kid being a little kid and one of the dudes who is nice and is fucking amazing, supporting the kid being a kid, so he decides to power slide at the kid to scare him and make sure everyone knows, even though it wasn't even his turn, he was upset he wasn't able to skate where the kid was standing.
These people make the session miserable as there is no escaping them. They completely change the vibe. It goes from fun to cool-guy miserable as soon as they show up.
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Pretty short. Started to rain. But it was forecasted anyway and I managed to do what I wanted to, so it was all good.
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Today's session started off fun, but there are like there are about 6 dudes who frequent the park who are complete fucking ass-hats. I'd guess they're anywhere from twenty-two to mid-30s. They are too old to skate the park in such a shitty manner.
They skate like 8 years olds who haven't learned the rules of the park. But instead of it being from not knowing better, they seem to think the rules don't apply to them. This seems really common among dudes who were slightly better than I was at my peak.
One dude tonight was trying a few runs, but he'd missed a trick and instead of being like, "Welp, that sucks my turn is over," he'd snake everyone and started again immediately.
The same dude would miss his manual trick, hit the ramp behind the manual pad (knowing there were people queuing up to skate the manual pad from direction he had first tried to skate it), and then just try again going against traffic not giving a fuck if he ran into someone else.
One dude, seems to think the park being crowded gives him an excuse to never wait for his turn. Just snake everyone and skate the entire park even though everyone else skates as if it was divided into fourths when it is packed. There are a few people who can skate the whole park but they go out of their way to find breaks in the traffic rather than just plowing over people.
The same dude as a above sees a little kid being a little kid and one of the dudes who is nice and is fucking amazing, supporting the kid being a kid, so he decides to power slide at the kid to scare him and make sure everyone knows, even though it wasn't even his turn, he was upset he wasn't able to skate where the kid was standing.
These people make the session miserable as there is no escaping them. They completely change the vibe. It goes from fun to cool-guy miserable as soon as they show up.
Sounds like typical skatepark "hero" behaviour. And yes, that is always a fun killer. And also, aren't they a bit too old, to act like that? Did you went skating somewhere else then? Anyone know a good way to deal with those kinda people?
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Went to my local and mainly skated flat. Felt good to practice the basics. Did a couple Varial flips and got real close to tre flips, need to try them more to get them consistent. Feeling real comfortable with the scoop and landing now.
Started a session on the ledge but Rollerbladers have waxed it so much its a death trap, that died pretty quick.
One of the local skate rats' axle nut came off with no thread just as he was getting close to some new tricks. He was super bummed so I ran home and got him a spare from the drawer. He was super hyped & grateful. Reminded me of being super young and broke, where a broken bearing or Deck would mean no skating until you saved for a new whatever.
Ended by learning front shove and switch front shove on a bank, not nearly as scary as thought. All those years of getting letters on them in skate could have been solved with 20 mins of actual effort lol.
A good casual session.
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Broke in my new wheels and bearings, Spitfire Lil Smokies 48 and Swiss 6 Balls. Before that I rode Bones 100s down at 46 and regular Swiss. This is like day and night, I am so much faster. Lock in on grinds is better as well. The real test stands before tho, tomorrow I‘ll take them to the slappy curb.
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Today's session started off fun, but there are like there are about 6 dudes who frequent the park who are complete fucking ass-hats. I'd guess they're anywhere from twenty-two to mid-30s. They are too old to skate the park in such a shitty manner.
They skate like 8 years olds who haven't learned the rules of the park. But instead of it being from not knowing better, they seem to think the rules don't apply to them. This seems really common among dudes who were slightly better than I was at my peak.
One dude tonight was trying a few runs, but he'd missed a trick and instead of being like, "Welp, that sucks my turn is over," he'd snake everyone and started again immediately.
The same dude would miss his manual trick, hit the ramp behind the manual pad (knowing there were people queuing up to skate the manual pad from direction he had first tried to skate it), and then just try again going against traffic not giving a fuck if he ran into someone else.
One dude, seems to think the park being crowded gives him an excuse to never wait for his turn. Just snake everyone and skate the entire park even though everyone else skates as if it was divided into fourths when it is packed. There are a few people who can skate the whole park but they go out of their way to find breaks in the traffic rather than just plowing over people.
The same dude as a above sees a little kid being a little kid and one of the dudes who is nice and is fucking amazing, supporting the kid being a kid, so he decides to power slide at the kid to scare him and make sure everyone knows, even though it wasn't even his turn, he was upset he wasn't able to skate where the kid was standing.
These people make the session miserable as there is no escaping them. They completely change the vibe. It goes from fun to cool-guy miserable as soon as they show up.
One of my favorite park spots I got to skate in Australia had a sick street plaza and there was a youngish teenish guy that thought he didn't have to follow the rules and be a dick. Older skaters confronted him about his dick behavior and decided he needed to be ejected after he didn't heed their warning. I wish this would happen where needed elsewhere for clowns you described.
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i had an amazing session today. it appears someone scraped and burned all the wax off the whole park!!!!!!! i took advantage of the metal edge curb. i havent done front 5oh in like months and months. im a back 5oh guy. i locked in so perf every try. i kept casing the pop out but it was beautiful feeling. i did all the rocks. all the nose slides and board slides on the flat bar. i did a really nice cab up the bank to flat because theres no euro.
thats my trick for sure. i fucking love it. i wish i could cab flip still. landing upside down or primo on those can be deadly to the ankles at my age. i did a few imps and atempted my old favorite trick. big flip. im on a 15" wb rn with v hollows and 58mm wheels. i could not get all the way around. was like 270 or full board rotation with 90 body one foot down. there was this kid i see sometimes. he inspired me to do so
im going out to practice them tomorrow maybe but on the PMI M1. i feel like i want that trick back. they was always easier for me to do nicely than tre or backside flips. i def want them back.
today was good tomorrow will be even better. maybe even tonight.
also i found out Duane lost a gig. that makes me giggle inside. wanna threaten my people? Burning a KFJ board dr do not see? hahaha asshole. punks arent antisemitic dog. maybe that flys in new romantic shit but not at skater con or PRB dood. oh man i giggle.
thank you cab. ilu and your trick.
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I skated well for an hour, then I ate shit while doing something uninteresting. It was great. Goose eggs! Goose eggs for all!
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landed reg heelflips again after years. it was sick.
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Yesterday, I was in a bowl and was going fast into a backside grind on a 5-6ft section, stuck on the grind, flew to flat on my back, hit my head (thank you, helmets) and am now feeling whip lash this morning.
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Went to the only decent flat ground spot in town. Did a bunch of shitty kickflips and maybe 1-2 acceptable ones. Was trying to get some decent snap on my pop shoves or at least get some kind of dollar store version of Josh Kalis' first one in the Heavy Metal video, but naw, I'm just an awkward stiff-legged lanky ogre.
Moved on to fs nose on the too high for me benches. I was at least trying them at a decent speed and starting from the beginning of the short benches. Almost got a decent one but landed in a tail scrape. Then one where I nearly did the splits, with my front foot still on the board and my back foot sliding for 4 feet on the inside edge of my shoe, which left some ridiculous wear marks. Then finally slipped and fell on my lower back where I already have a sizeable bruise and gave up and went home defeated.
Was still fun though!
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Found a lill slappy curb on a parking lot I wanted to break in. There are lights so I went out on a night mission .
I spent a good amount of time with a rubbrick and a ton of wax. First try, coming in with speed and in that moment the lights go dark. I pinched hard and landed in the bush.
So.. yeah shit happens.
Spent the rest of the night on a different flatground spot.
Killed my new shoes and went home .
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finally managed to land proper and balanced nollie bs nosegrinds, both popping out and going til the end of the ledge.
also, i think i might have (re-)learned varial heelflips, kind of. last sessions have been quite good i guess.
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Can we post about future sessions here? I've had a knee injury that more or less kept me off the board for 3-4 years, but it's finally getting better (because I decided to consistently go to the gym), so I'm buying a new board today or tomorrow - pretty stoked on that!
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Got to the park as the morning old guy crew was leaving…and another old guy crew replaced them. It was a blast. Crazy seeing a park packed at 7am but if its mostly old heads like me, its cool.
Tried a bunch of kickflips. Worked on fakie ollies over the a frame at speed. Had fun.
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Did some slash grinds and some of those fake nollies over the a frame because I’m pretty epic and cool. Some teenagers boxed in the bottom of the bowl with boxing gloves on for a while. This one kid got mad at this other kid for “stealing his style”. They were both wearing big ass pants and t shirts, like every other teenager at the park.
I left and got some qdoba and it was still better than chipotle.
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Back to back half cab flip and half cab heels first try.
Might just quit skating now and end on a high.
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One of my favorite park spots I got to skate in Australia had a sick street plaza and there was a youngish teenish guy that thought he didn't have to follow the rules and be a dick. Older skaters confronted him about his dick behavior and decided he needed to be ejected after he didn't heed their warning. I wish this would happen where needed elsewhere for clowns you described.
Sadly, the worst offender is really good, so that comes with a fan club that seems to look the other way and he gets a nod of approval from an older dude who rips. It honestly really bums me out. I know as soon as he shows up my session is over.
This has always been my least favorite thing about skateboarding. It reminds me of regular sports: "Oh, you're not very good. Time for you sit on the bench and watch the good people skate."
But, to end with a good story. I saw McCrank the other day. I was struggling with an embarrassingly easy trick. McCrank let me take my turn when it was my turn and even gave me a little "woo" when I got this insanely basic trick. He makes it really easy to want to support him.
Note: It is amazing how much basic park decency can mean to others. I remember Wade DesArmo kicked my board back to me an DunBat and that's all it took for me to back him. Ernie Torres waved hello when we saw each other at a park that neither of us frequented very often. I've backed him ever since. Small gestures go a long way. And, the opposite means a lot too. I've written of a few "core" shops because the workers or local riders act like complete dildos.
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Finally learned the secret to proper FS pop-shuvs then tweaked my lower back.
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Finally learned the secret to proper FS pop-shuvs then tweaked my lower back.
Teach me- I can only do the ones where you travel sideways, plenty of pop amd height but I move back loads.
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A buddy texted me yesterday morning that he was hitting up the park across the street from my house. It was 104 degrees outside at 10am and I had planned on taking the day off to let my legs recover. I found myself pushing over there 20 minutes after declining the session and skated for an hour and a half
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skated alone for like 6 hours was amazing made me feel much better
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Had a nice solo slappy sesh on Sunday morning with a bs crook to regular as the highlight. Was exhausted after one hour and had trouble breathing in the night. Checked into the ER today, turns out my lung has collapsed once again and now I am laying in the hospital with a tube in the lung.
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I found the perfect flat Manny pad. Before I found it I was skating barriers in front of a bar. Some lady who was hammered AF said to me
You're going to get run over. I looked around quick and said where. She laughed and said You ARE going to get run over.
I kinda lost my shit a little. I yelled at her to shut the fuck up! 2-6x and then I mashed into the barrier and did a really good one and stomped it down while brandish duel middle fingers all crouched and shit.
Then I followed up with a beast imp and also stomped the shit out of it.
I got a few more moved on after doing a very nice cab. Went and found the pad.
I felt a little bad but not so much. They wasn't scared or anything. I just threw a little bit of poo at her and entourage.
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Looked like this but older
http://youtu.be/nKaUV9m2ZRg
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Had a dream last night that I could do tre flips very casually again… decided to try and skate some flat to see if it could be a reality. Did a few warm up tricks on flat, got a nice heelflip, which I’m stoked on because I suck at them. Didn’t get a real casual tre flip but I did manage to get a decent one after wayyyy too many tries… I’m less than mad about it.
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Had a dream last night that I could do tre flips very casually again… decided to try and skate some flat to see if it could be a reality. Did a few warm up tricks on flat, got a nice heelflip, which I’m stoked on because I suck at them. Didn’t get a real casual tre flip but I did manage to get a decent one after wayyyy too many tries… I’m less than mad about it.
Gnar
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Spent a long ass time trying to nollie out of bs crooks without much success, and after that I practiced fakie big flips, I landed a couple sketchy ones I just can't keep my body over the board.
Also there was this older dude, like in his late 30s, skating ledges pretty well and he said he just got back into skateboarding, like second day skating, which is neat and a bit relatable so that made me happy as fuck.
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I didn't stretch and felt like my board was too short. didn't warm up properly, telling myself I would mostly watch my friends try to film.
Wound up talking myself into trying to get a clip, banged my face twice on the ground, hurt my shoulder and knee, but I kept trying even though i knew it was stupid and no one wanted to see me try it. I was trying to come around a corner, boardslide a short handrail, then drop to bs onto a ledge a couple feet off the ground. Mercifully I broke my board so I had to stop. It's taken a couple days to recover, gonna try to go back at it tomorrow.
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It's been a while since I last skated but the last session was one to remember. I was visiting NYC for the first time, Was skating with a dude working for Jenkem (He was a great guy!!). I was warming up for a line at the pyramid ledge. My idea was to do a flip from the four stair and then some bs noseslide variation on the ledge. But just before I was starting to try the line I thought it would be good to do some flips from the three stair but then I fucked up my ankle and had to go to the hospital. God bless my European health insurance it was all free, still made me mad as fuck tough. Still recovering from it, two months later.
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Teach me- I can only do the ones where you travel sideways, plenty of pop amd height but I move back loads.
DMd you, dude.
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Nothing much but at the same time noteworthy - have been off due to a back injury combined with some mental fog for what seemed like forever and with Labour Day rolling around I remembered growing up I'd always go fishing with my Dad and then go to this little take out spot for burgers on the way home to end the summer. Just a little tradition we'd have. So thinking I needed a new mini tradition I decided that first day kids are back at school I'd hit a park at lunch, hoping it'd be empty, with a mostly new set up (deck and trucks). So after dialing in the trucks I just worked on my ollies up a small ledge and some horrible grinds on a mini quarter. Some things worked, some didn't (wiped out on a F/S grind on the quarter and fell hard for a hipper) - but I got out, I fought through stuff that would have had me seeing red a little while ago and now am going to BBQ for the family and see how the kids did 1st day back. Cheers!
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got to skate fort miley for a while today. shit was ill.
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Met up with my old housemate at the slappy curb after work. Was a fun little sesh, Both got a couple new tricks. Been working on my slappy fs smiths and starting to get them grinding longer now. Back at it tomorrow night at the local for a sesh with a few friends.
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Met up with my old housemate at the slappy curb after work. Was a fun little sesh, Both got a couple new tricks. Been working on my slappy fs smiths and starting to get them grinding longer now. Back at it tomorrow night at the local for a sesh with a few friends.
I can't slappy front smith. That shit is hard AF. It's hard for me to properly slappy fr 5 oh. I'm like going to pinch and drag my tail all fakie switch front crooked like
Backside it's no problem. I have I'll control imo that way.
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It was cold but managed to film a line and re-learn an old trick.
Decent.
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Had a nice solo slappy sesh on Sunday morning with a bs crook to regular as the highlight. Was exhausted after one hour and had trouble breathing in the night. Checked into the ER today, turns out my lung has collapsed once again and now I am laying in the hospital with a tube in the lung.
Woah. That sounds heavy. I hope you are doing better by now and can go back home soon.
My last sesh was sunday. At a small DIY spot with rusty nails everywhere. Got a few clips, fell a lot on my ass and now I have a fever and feel sick.
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Had a nice solo slappy sesh on Sunday morning with a bs crook to regular as the highlight. Was exhausted after one hour and had trouble breathing in the night. Checked into the ER today, turns out my lung has collapsed once again and now I am laying in the hospital with a tube in the lung.
Woah. That sounds heavy. I hope you are doing better by now and can go back home soon.
My last sesh was sunday. At a small DIY spot with rusty nails everywhere. Got a few clips, fell a lot on my ass and now I have a fever and feel sick.
Thanks. I had the surgery today and hope to get out by Sunday. I wish you a speedy recovery too.
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It was neat. Filmed my first clip since breaking my ankle a year ago.
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couple of skraaaaaks and a few fttttthhhssss
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a tweaker showed up talking to me while I was skating and shit, and I had to make a hasty exit from the park :(
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Record heat yesterday at 116, 117 in some areas. Worked all day in a bakery with no ac, got off and chilled with the homie in his dark ass air conditioned house. Got out around dark and it was still over 100. Went to two different Slappy spots and didn’t land shit, got super close to Slappy feeble to fs bigspin out. I already landed one but the homie filmed it in time lapse ☹️🤣
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Skating an 8.25 for the first time in 5 years and it’s so nice.
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Met up with my old housemate at the slappy curb after work. Was a fun little sesh, Both got a couple new tricks. Been working on my slappy fs smiths and starting to get them grinding longer now. Back at it tomorrow night at the local for a sesh with a few friends.
I can't slappy front smith. That shit is hard AF. It's hard for me to properly slappy fr 5 oh. I'm like going to pinch and drag my tail all fakie switch front crooked like
Backside it's no problem. I have I'll control imo that way.
It's taken me longer than I'd like to admit to get it actually grinding hey, at first I was basically just stalling on the curb in smith. figured out going fast af, having my back foot in the pocket and as soon as I get into smith really pushing heel side forward has helped me a lot.
I'm the opposite, I struggle with most bs slappy tricks FS just works me I don't know why because I'm more comfortable with bs grinds on a ledge.
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It's a big holiday here so the skatepark was full of kids running around covering almost the entire place, I was the only one skating and to avoid the headache of dealing with their parents I just decided to stay by the flatbar and polejam which were a bit far from the kids.
1 hr or so later a local showed up and started doing some heavy gnarly shit and in less than 10 minutes every family went home realizing that bitching or not their kids could end up in a hospital, looks like I need to learn aerials and spine transfers, one day..
Right after that we played a few awesome games of skate without trick repetition, I landed a couple ones that I never tried before, easy awkward stuff like switch front shuv and fakie varial but that's still cool.
Another highlight was a very clean and high fakie big flip that felt amazing.
I think I lost inward heelflips though which sucks, I used to have those on lock a while back.
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Warming up and first primo slam in a few months on a nollie pop shuv of all things... that's never happened before. Caught me unawares and went straight to the floor.
Pretty much set the tone for the rest of the session, had a months worth of dings/scrapes and knocks in the space of an hour.
Deffo the worst session of the year sofar.
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Got the V back. Now today I'ma go fakie.
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Went to the skatepark this morning. In two hours landed like one or two front boards on a curb and a didn't land shit else save for maybe a kickflip or two on flat. Was fun.
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Skated through bronx park on shaped board with large spitfires. Carves and slides. Short van cortland skatepark session following on street board-airs, ride on grinds, largely failed flat ground attempts. No notable tricks landed or attempted! Pretty good session though. Got the longest manual I've gotten in a long time.
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Got the V back. Now today I'ma go fakie.
Fakie varial flips are fun as hell.
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got a fs flip and a tre at the local pyramid with the 360 camera
they were my lunch break tricks, got 30 minutes to skate and then back to work ;)
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skated after eating a big meal and getting four hours of sleep did fairly well for a low energy session
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skated a curb for 45 minutes, failed to kickflip successfully and then pulled a muscle in my shoulder. i think i'm getting old.
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skated a curb for 45 minutes, failed to kickflip successfully and then pulled a muscle in my shoulder. i think i'm getting old.
I pull something fairly regularly these days, seems to be a part of skating in your 30s and beyond no matter your warmup or diet etc.
I skated again today despite yesterday's slam.
Landed primo two days running, varial flip this time. Primo slams for me are like buses, none for ages then they all come at once.
My neck hates me even more now.
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First roll in 3 months, it didn’t look pretty but at least I got back out there!
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skated a curb for 45 minutes, failed to kickflip successfully.i think i'm getting old.
This sums up my last four sessions.
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skated a curb for 45 minutes, failed to kickflip successfully and then pulled a muscle in my shoulder. i think i'm getting old.
I pull something fairly regularly these days, seems to be a part of skating in your 30s and beyond no matter your warmup or diet etc.
I skated again today despite yesterday's slam.
Landed primo two days running, varial flip this time. Primo slams for me are like buses, none for ages then they all come at once.
My neck hates me even more now.
Hydrate.
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skated a curb for 45 minutes, failed to kickflip successfully and then pulled a muscle in my shoulder. i think i'm getting old.
I pull something fairly regularly these days, seems to be a part of skating in your 30s and beyond no matter your warmup or diet etc.
I skated again today despite yesterday's slam.
Landed primo two days running, varial flip this time. Primo slams for me are like buses, none for ages then they all come at once.
My neck hates me even more now.
Hydrate.
I drink 2L of water over a 2 hour session, so got that covered.
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Lots of waxing. More waxing. Even more waxing. Telling kids they can't skate unless they wax the areas of the curb they're skating.
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Lots of waxing. More waxing. Even more waxing. Telling kids they can't skate unless they wax the areas of the curb they're skating.
that’s
not the attitude that’ll sell those andy anderson decks bud
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it was dope.
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I'm skating the little 3 foot quarter when half a dozen kids arrive. None have boards. They start asking to use everybody's board. "Just one trick, just one trick!"
They start doing this to one guy who's leaving, he says something to them, and they leave him and run right at ME, all yelling at once.
"Tony Hawk! Let me get a pic! Tony Hawk!" What? Dude told them I was the birdman, and they believed him? I do wear knee pads, but I'm bald, my 180s are bad, and I have a beard. It ain't me you're looking for, babe.
They were so disappointed though. One kid actually stomped his foot and exclaimed, "this sucks!" I should have just signed my board and given it to them. Best of luck <3 Tony.
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we've had a great start to the week with some fall-like temperatures here in the midwest. monday was rainy so yesterday was perfect.
met a friend at a park we haven't skated in awhile at 6pm, about 70-72 degrees. my dumb ass thought I wouldn't sweat so much with this nice weather - jokes on me. shirt was drenched and I was wiping my sweaty face by 6:30.
gotta love the one dude at the park wearing a beanie while I can see his shirt is obviously completely sweat soaked. lol.
getting more comfy with frontside reverts and spinning my body in different directions.
great sesh with the homie. made me realize I need to go out and skate on weekdays more often, I love this shit.
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skated a spot/curb in a pretty populated area (midwest so the weather is nice rn), ran into a dude who i hadn't seen in a while, landed a couple new tricks which was tight (fakie ollie->sw50-> fakie front180 out, front180 sw50 fakie front180 out).
tried to get buck and ollie this grass gap but fucked myself up lol, just some blood but some random girls offered me a (my little pony) bandaid from their car and washed the wound out.
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i did the same 10 tricks i always do at the same spot i always skate
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I went to my old stomping grounds since the parking lot is clear on Sundays now. My curb is gone now since they turned part of the sidewalk into a handicap ramp. Anyways, I haven’t skated in a couple of weeks and since the sun’s going down earlier, it cools off just in time for me to skate after work on Sunday. I skated the wheelchair bank, got a 180, front shuv, and kickflip. Skated the curb cut and did a little flatground for half an hour. Still pretty rusty, but hopefully I’ll get a couple of seshes in this week since I have the early shift.
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i ate shit yesterday doing a tailslide on the quarter pipe at my local park. it’s been humid/hot so the coping sticks really bad when the weather is like that, i dug in with all my weight forward & got spit onto the flat bottom with my elbow straight into my ribs and landing with all the impact onto my right knee. knocked the wind out of me so i had to pace around for a second and immediately realized upon doing so that i had chicken winged my leg when my knee hit & strained my groin really bad. been sitting all day & last night icing it & taking epsom salt baths. moral of the story, always stretch before you skate & maybe check the coping before you just try to crank a slide/grind on it. maybe wax your tail/truck. the first 2 i did slid a little but, all my weight was in the back while pushing the board forward, didn’t really think about it when i went full speed standing straight up & got catapulted.
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been skating this paved trail spot by the water with my son lately just going fast and hitting one tree root bump... we go at the perfect time when it's like 65 degrees
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There was a big party going on at my local so I decided to visit a skatepark I haven't been to in ages, turns out it's reformed, 10/10 cement, 10/10 sloped rail and 2 tiny manny pads.
There are long and slightly curved benches but I don't know what's up with those, I ignored how dry it looked and tried to crook it and part of it chipped off, maybe it's actually just there for people to sit on I don't know.
Half of the place is still closed but I think it's just gonna be a big and very shallow bowl, either way I'll be going back there just for that sloped rail.
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Yesterday I went out to the local I’ve been going to for almost 10 years, rolled around and kept it easy. I’m 26 and have had a knee surgery so it took a while to feel warmed up but damn, it felt so good. Occasionally I’ll tweak my knee and have to put the board down for a month or two but I’ve been lucky recently, legs are feeling stronger, pops getting higher again, Learning new technical tricks and feeling progress on all fronts. felt like it’s been too long since I’ve had this energy
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hurt myself
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went to a local park the other day and was too pussy to roll in (the whole park is pretty much just a short but really steep bowl) but i was the only person who had a clean shuvit
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wanted a shwick-krrrrrpop
ended up with skkrrrrrra ffftttthhhh oooo
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Hadn’t skated in about a year due to herniated discs in my lower back.
Landed a kickflip first try on flat then followed up by throwing my back out again ollieing up a curb.
Fuck this shit, I’m retiring. I can do 5 days a week of intense BJJ and everything’s fine, I’m more flexible and stronger than ever, yet I fuck myself up ollieing up a curb without even falling.
Had a hell of a run and lots of fun but my back can’t take it anymore and I’m over it.
RIP my skate career. 1999-2022.
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Skated some flat in my garage last night. It was hard because we only have one overhead light right in the middle of the ceiling and it casts shadows over your board when you roll a certain way.
It was also fun in a way because you have to just trust that you're going to land on the board after blindly doing a trick.
It reminded me of going out night skating with my friends when I was a kid. Miss those days so much. :'(
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Hadn’t skated in about a year due to herniated discs in my lower back.
Landed a kickflip first try on flat then followed up by throwing my back out again ollieing up a curb.
Fuck this shit, I’m retiring. I can do 5 days a week of intense BJJ and everything’s fine, I’m more flexible and stronger than ever, yet I fuck myself up ollieing up a curb without even falling.
Had a hell of a run and lots of fun but my back can’t take it anymore and I’m over it.
RIP my skate career. 1999-2022.
Sorry to hear about your back.
At its worst, one time I threw out my back unplugging a vacuum cleaner when I was working as a housekeeper in an old folks home in 2000-2001. I was laid out on the carpet face down for a bit until the pain stopped being so intense and absolutely no one came to my aid.
Hope one day your back decides to stop being a jerk.
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Hadn’t skated in about a year due to herniated discs in my lower back.
Landed a kickflip first try on flat then followed up by throwing my back out again ollieing up a curb.
Fuck this shit, I’m retiring. I can do 5 days a week of intense BJJ and everything’s fine, I’m more flexible and stronger than ever, yet I fuck myself up ollieing up a curb without even falling.
Had a hell of a run and lots of fun but my back can’t take it anymore and I’m over it.
RIP my skate career. 1999-2022.
At its worst, one time I threw out my back unplugging a vacuum cleaner when I was working as a housekeeper in an old folks home in 2000-2001. I was laid out on the carpet face down for a bit until the pain stopped being so intense and absolutely no one came to my aid.
Hope one day your back decides to stop being a jerk.
Thanks friend.
Back pain has been a staple of mine since I’m 18 (i’m almost 34 now). I’d be fine for a few years and then boom, it would start again for a couple weeks. It’s been much worse in the last 3 years where it happens every year.
Your vaccuum story is exactly what happened to me last year, bent over to plug in my PS4 controller and the damn thing just gave out. Fell forward and stayed on my living room floor for half an hour in crazy pain before I could crawl to my couch. I was messed up bad for 3 months, had to walk with a cane and everything. That was by far the worst pain I’ve ever been in, so bad I thought I was going to throw up.
This time isn’t so bad since BJJ has kept me in really good shape, but I’m just bummed it happened again.
Getting old sucks.
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Hadn’t skated in about a year due to herniated discs in my lower back.
Landed a kickflip first try on flat then followed up by throwing my back out again ollieing up a curb.
Fuck this shit, I’m retiring. I can do 5 days a week of intense BJJ and everything’s fine, I’m more flexible and stronger than ever, yet I fuck myself up ollieing up a curb without even falling.
Had a hell of a run and lots of fun but my back can’t take it anymore and I’m over it.
RIP my skate career. 1999-2022.
I've dealt with back issues on and off for the last 12 years, specifically with my L3-L4. It was part of the reason I decided to start doing weight training and jump roping. My chiropractor recommended it for years but I just started getting serious about it back in June. I do a lot of exercises that target my core and it has made a huge difference. Went to one of the local parks with my nephew on Tuesday evening and I was pleasantly surprised by how well I skated. My back didn't hurt like it used to and I had significantly more stamina than I did the last time I skated, which was a few months back. I'm only 35, but I plan on skating for as long as my body physically lets me. Watching guys like Reynolds, AVE, and Mariano has definitely motivated me to keep it going. That and I just genuinely love skateboarding. Even when I reach the point where I can't physically skate, I don't think I'll ever stop keeping up with it.
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Skated a miniramp the other day. Did a fakie smith that hung up. Tried to bail, but my front foot stuck to the board so I ended up falling straight to the bottom. Hit down so hard that I thought I shit my pants. That ended the session right there
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Had my first "proper" session in almost three weeks due to lung surgery. I had a few manny only sessions earlier this week but today I got to do my full routine and was stoked to get all my tricks quickly, including a few lines. Plus the manny only sessions helped me getting better at nose, fakie and switch mannies, which is a plus.
I feel like -> It's kinda hard to imagine, like Kanye West coming back from his fatal accident to beatmakin' and rappin' (The Game, Start From Scratch)
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Had a fun 90-minute session on my 2.5x12' garage mini yesterday. Planning to repeat that today. Quit the booze a week ago so no hangovers are helping me skate longer. Sleep adjustment from not being loaded nearly every night is still a bitch though. Overall, working from home this week kinda rules.
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shuv it shuv it no comply 180
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Skated a kinked curb, really fun but hard. Got a boardslide up it (flat, kink, flat, height of ledge on top) tried to get my friend to film a rolling long lens angle of it, got absolutely worked. Took 3 slams, tweaked my ankle, bounced off my knee on the ledge, and finally came down straight on my tailbone on the kink. Miraculously I was okay and kept trying, almost got a feeble up it too. Friend nose slid it like a little hubba, that was rad.
(https://i.ibb.co/cDZfcwQ/A3-E4-D14-C-22-FF-4-B5-F-B286-9-A7-CA1387781.png) (https://ibb.co/cDZfcwQ)
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skated an indoor. reactivated my swell bow on a mini ramp, tried to pump from flat to to vert with no pads or helmet. Got scared and vowed to come back even harder next week (ie just learn to kneeslide on pads I bought last year and have never used)
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New deck, new you feeling. Thought I was losing it, just needed some fresh pop and not an orange top ply.
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Got my first workout in weeks, went to my local to warm up, and headed to downtown to skate for a while. I started at a crusty bank with a nollie bs 180 then moved on since it was too dark outside. Drove to the parking garage a few blocks away that has a bunch of parking blocks and a nice yellow manny pad/curb that ranges from 5-15 feet long on each side. I put my Tensors back on and they grinded like butter on all the concrete, my only gripe was the click that the bushings make, they sound like my knees cracking haha. Got some boardslides, 50-50's, slappy noseslides and tailslides. I tried 5-0 but the rounded off crust on the curb pushed me off after grinding a few feet. I'm brand new to frontside slappies and felt like I was getting close to getting both trucks on. It feels like a weird frontside carve with a lot of force. Anyways, I had a lot of fun just grinding and sliding and was happy to be out there.
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Cleaned up glass from broken bottles and trash for hours at the local skatepark and the school beside it that my son attends. Some punk kids gonna get a swift backhand for this bullshit.
Was too bummed out after to put any effort into skateboarding. At least 2 scooter kids, a biker and another skate bro helped out a lot. Might even be cleaner now than before since we swept out tons of rocks and sand too.
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First time I skated with my friends since summer. The weather was nice and park was empty, the only issue is that we found a huge rat trapped inside the bowl.
It took us 10 hilarious minutes to take the rat out, after that the session was radt.
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Went to my usual curb that i’ve been loving and nuturing the past year or so, never gets old, still stoked.
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Brittany, France here.My last sess was a good one.Not that I ripped(50years old) but I rode a new deck and you know the feeling.I didn't have to break into it because it's same deck I had before.An anti hero 8,125.
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I met a lady this summer and been working a lot so I’ve skated like once a month past 8 months, yesterday was a perfect day sun was shining having a day off and homies were down to skate. We started with some slapppies and flatground, after that hit this bank to try some flippity stuff and off to this new ledge spot we headed. Ledge was buttery as fuck, I learned switch crooked grind at the age of 39 and I’ve always sucked at ledges. That felt too good, now I wanna go skate again next saturday 8)
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Today was an odd day for me. First day off that isn't on a weekend, perfect skate weather, not a cloud in the sky, but I just wasn't feeling it all that much. Had a long night beforehand working an awards banquet and had to be out of the house for a few hours so I went to skate. Once I got to my local, all my mojo just vanished. I just cruised around the park and got a bit warmed up. Afterwards I decided to make the best of my low energy and work on a few of my staple tricks that I tend to just use to warm up. I practiced sliding my foot and moving my body on nollie back 180's (I wanna do them on hips and out of banks and really feel like Gino doing them). Then I moved on to front shuv's and pulling my front foot up a bit to hold my catch so I can comfortably do it up and down stuff. Finally, I did a few kickflips to get used to the Tensor's (I have to move my foot closer to the ollie position). At that point I called it a day since my body was worn out from the past few days. I'll come back when things aren't as crazy. I need to get a good flatground sesh in to knock off the rest of the rust.
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I tried an electric skateboard tonight. I'm almost in love? Tight AF trucks. Bitter sweet. Was like dragging my hands on the bricks and shit.
I wanted to go over the cobble but the owner said no.
Actually the first thing I said to him was" go over the cobble stone!!!"
He was high speed butt boarding when I shouted at him. He and his friends stopped and talked about my jacket. One kid said hey if you ever wanna sell that? I was like probably not. I'd entertain a trade for a Epiphone lp.
I fucking went back and forth between tourists on the bumpy bricks on Essex street. I could barely make the wide af turn around. Almost fell off put my hand down.
Then I did a pull. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!! I heard people shouting at me. I came about and used the break. Jerk jerk jerk lol.
My heart was pounding and my face hurt from smiling.
I need one so bad. I feel like the silver surfer hahahaha!!!!! YES permanent hills ha!!!!
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Landed primo on a kickflip of a curb. :'(
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The other day I noticed a person skating an empty lot near where I live. Went for a quick skate to kill some time tonight. Whoever skates there moved two parking blocks and waxed them up pretty nicely so I was just doing some FS boardslides and enjoying the 'lil spot. I'm definitely going to be hitting it up going forward. Only skated about 15 minutes and then caught a screening of THE THING. Found $40 on the ground on the way home. It was a very good night.
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went through 6 plies on 1 trick
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I took my young son out to this cool ramp spot out on my late friend's parents' farm for my birthday. There's also a big concrete slab with various flat bars and other interesting sketchy little wood obstacles. We were the only people there. It was a beautiful day and he was having fun butt boarding on the mini ramp and learning how to push on the concrete flat area. I got some okay basic lines on the ramp then somehow threw my back out sticking on a 5050 on this new crusty concrete ledge that would not grind no matter how much wax we rubbed on er. Was almost the perfect late afternoon session if I didn't old man hurt myself.
Couple pics to illustrate this quaint spot in the woods:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Kc5yV6KW/20221001-164041.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/bJjKVgq8/20221001-164519.jpg)
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I took my young son out to this cool ramp spot out on my late friend's parents' farm for my birthday. There's also a big concrete slab with various flat bars and other interesting sketchy little wood obstacles. We were the only people there. It was a beautiful day and he was having fun butt boarding on the mini ramp and learning how to push on the concrete flat area. I got some okay basic lines on the ramp then somehow threw my back out sticking on a 5050 on this new crusty concrete ledge that would not grind no matter how much wax we rubbed on er. Was almost the perfect late afternoon session if I didn't old man hurt myself.
Couple pics to illustrate this quaint spot in the woods:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Kc5yV6KW/20221001-164041.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/bJjKVgq8/20221001-164519.jpg)
Wow a skatespot in the woods, best of both worlds.
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I took my young son out to this cool ramp spot out on my late friend's parents' farm for my birthday. There's also a big concrete slab with various flat bars and other interesting sketchy little wood obstacles. We were the only people there. It was a beautiful day and he was having fun butt boarding on the mini ramp and learning how to push on the concrete flat area. I got some okay basic lines on the ramp then somehow threw my back out sticking on a 5050 on this new crusty concrete ledge that would not grind no matter how much wax we rubbed on er. Was almost the perfect late afternoon session if I didn't old man hurt myself.
Couple pics to illustrate this quaint spot in the woods:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Kc5yV6KW/20221001-164041.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/bJjKVgq8/20221001-164519.jpg)
dream spot
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I took my young son out to this cool ramp spot out on my late friend's parents' farm for my birthday. There's also a big concrete slab with various flat bars and other interesting sketchy little wood obstacles. We were the only people there. It was a beautiful day and he was having fun butt boarding on the mini ramp and learning how to push on the concrete flat area. I got some okay basic lines on the ramp then somehow threw my back out sticking on a 5050 on this new crusty concrete ledge that would not grind no matter how much wax we rubbed on er. Was almost the perfect late afternoon session if I didn't old man hurt myself.
Couple pics to illustrate this quaint spot in the woods:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Kc5yV6KW/20221001-164041.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/bJjKVgq8/20221001-164519.jpg)
This is perfect, I want to retire to the skatefarm right now.
Changed from 147 to ace 44 on same deck, couple of sessions to adjust, last one felt right. Somehow now I can pop fs shuvs and fakie 3flip way higher and comfortable than before. Played a bunch of SKATE then filmed my buddy endlessly trying bscrooked 360shuv out. He wasn't close.
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Things aren't going well.
I thought it was because I've cut my food down to like 2.5 small meals a day. Chicken like once a week. Blah blah...
It's not. I did an across town mash and I can still do it with out picking up my board.
My Manny is basically gone. I can barely walk in a straight line too.
I feel like Craptin Jack Sparrow.
When I do get one it looks good AF because I strike a crazy pose lol and feel like the mummy.
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3rd session post-injury, actually popped a few tricks!
tbh just cruising around fast and doing long powerslides is just the best shit ever
my son is also looking super x2 comfortable on his board these days and is dropping in on bigger ramps which gets me hyped
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Went to some really crusty street spots today.
I filmed a pop shuv out of a kicker, which was a new one for me. Learned some funky curb dance moves.
I hope I can get one more clip, which I am stoked about, before the year ends. The time is missing sometimes with all those adult responsiblities.
I met a beautiful and awesome girl this year and I want to film for a video part before I am too old.
I got 4 clips so far this year.. ^^
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Took the lady down the island today for her driver's test and noticed there was a skatepark near by with a new addition to the old crusty one. Its all little pathways and shit crammed together. Not really feeling it. It's also on the side of a busy highway (that I had to walk down the shoulder of) with a huge dusty parking lot. It's very noisy, distracting and gross. The clamshell thing is fun to slash grind at least.
Very happy that she passed her test so I don't have to walk back. Hopefully I can string a few tricks together in the hot afternoon sun before I die.
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Drove to Tampa with the homie, hit bro bowl, Carrollwood then Jackson springs. Great days and clips until I got smoked on a bank to ledge
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hit my knee on front lip to smith on a curb lol
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I took my young son out to this cool ramp spot out on my late friend's parents' farm for my birthday. There's also a big concrete slab with various flat bars and other interesting sketchy little wood obstacles. We were the only people there. It was a beautiful day and he was having fun butt boarding on the mini ramp and learning how to push on the concrete flat area. I got some okay basic lines on the ramp then somehow threw my back out sticking on a 5050 on this new crusty concrete ledge that would not grind no matter how much wax we rubbed on er. Was almost the perfect late afternoon session if I didn't old man hurt myself.
Couple pics to illustrate this quaint spot in the woods:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Kc5yV6KW/20221001-164041.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/bJjKVgq8/20221001-164519.jpg)
Gnarred for being such a rad dad. That spot looks amazing!
I watched the new Polar video yesterday and got super hyped, so I hit two wallride spots and a pole jam spot that I've been meaning to check out for awhile. Got a clip at each spot, one of which was a trick I've never done before that I just started thinking of trying. Super stoked on that sesh!
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Insanely high Tiago 808 ledge at the park for a contest. I looked at it first try
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The best
I landed fakie flip front multiple time for the first time, I landed 360 flip for the first and also understood the trick. It's crazy after 7 years of half assing it in games of SKATE, throwing my board around, it somehow clicked today. It was not even a battle because I almost never tried outside of games, I ve always thought I would never be able to get the trick. I just hope it will still be there next time I skate. Very very fun session
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(https://i.ibb.co/N7HqhkT/giphy.gif) (https://ibb.co/M93HTjB)
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I learned fs slappy today. Also working on fs slappy hurricane. I had a really fun sesh today.
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Skated around puddles at skatepark with some other 35+ dudes also with low to middling ability at this point. Skated a bank, primoed straight to ass, and almost pooped my pants. Did a fun boardslide on a wet ledge and watched water droplets spread away. Threw my skateboard and cussed a couple times. Felt good to sweat on a cols day cuz I've been sick for almost 2 weeks. Cleansssseeeeee
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last session was good. finally was able to pull off front shuvit nosemanual on this slanted bank to manual pad to bank at the local park.
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Second skate since getting over COVID, went to an indoor park with just two other kids skating. Went through most of my tricks there to see if I still had them, and then went to the 2.5 foot mini and goofed around, learned an new trick just shy of 47 year old- bs slash/smith to revert back.
I want to figure it out and get comfortable so I can take it to a respectably-sized ramp. And maybe the same fs.
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been skating for like fucking 25 years or something and learned smith grinds and krooked grinds on a foot high ledge today within 25 minutes of each other. smith=back foot in the pocket, kgrind= front foot in the pocket. wtf. super stoked
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Ollie over the flat bar of the bump from my heelside. I think that's a 1st for me.
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Went back to Ye Olde Parking Garage last night after 2 overlapping days of work. Session was going okay, landed a few tricks and got the idea to lipslide the parking block. After rolling up several times and trying it on a dry block, I went for it. Ate shit a few times since the board flexed and my wheels hit the ground, but by some miracle I got through the slide and got out of it fakie somehow. I couldn't help but laugh after I landed it because of how lucky I got (plus a couple of beers in my system).
Also I finally hit the new skatepark in Birmingham AL and that park was fantastic. Slick as fuck but I got some wallies in, a bunch of grinds and the pump track was okay. Plus it's monitored at night.
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My bud asked me to film so I got my tricks and I'll put them in the post your skating soon. He has a vx camera with a big light on it. It turned out nice and we did it really quick.
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didn’t know birmingham got a park. might got a reason to visit now.
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Exactly 19 years ago on this day my grandma gave me my first board. I went out with the boys. Got a clip. Fell on my left ass cheek. Can't sit without pain now. Found a new spot. It was a good session.
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Lost it riding away from a fakie flip over a hip. I must’ve been 10 feet past the ramp when I tried to jump off my board. Front foot stayed up and I kicked straight down with the other when I did the splits. My big toenail is all black and hurts, so it’s probably gonna fall off in a few days. If I can stand on my board in the morning I might try and sneak a session in at Channel ST before work
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Drove by the skatepark and saw that no one is there. Went home to get my board and by the time I arrived at the skatepark it was completely littered in scooter kids and toddlers. Moms sitting on the obstacles, toddlers crawling around in the pool, kids running in the transition.
Told myself to try to get at least 30 minutes of flatground but canceled it after 10 minutes. This day I literally thought about giving up on skateboarding.
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had a small flatground session waiting at the train station landed a few good feeling half cabs both ways
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Got some of my basics back. Fresh kicks but they broke in quickly!
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farted in a parking garage and it echoed for like 5 seconds
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watched @Made In China lay waste to all my old local spots today. I fell on my hand and got a boo boo. Friendship!
Don't let this dude lie to you, he also got a banger during this sesh too! And that boo boo bail makes for a very good clip...
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Oh damn...it was like 27 years ago and pressure flips were still the hotness...I was rolling through the parking garage pressuring flips every which way and I fell and hurt my left wrist. That did it for my skateboard "career"
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Landed my first rolling kickflip yesterday
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Landed my first rolling kickflip yesterday
And you'll be chasing that high for the rest of your life.
Nothing feels better than your first real, rolling kickflip.
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Landed my first rolling kickflip yesterday
And you'll be chasing that high for the rest of your life.
Nothing feels better than your first real, rolling kickflip.
Wrong, at least to me. Every nicely caught flip trick feels so dope. I will never get enough of it.
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Went to my local this morning while it was pretty cool outside. Got warmed up in the bowls and banks before firing off a few flatground tricks. I was feeling pretty good so I decided to get a line going. My nollie bs 180’s and halfcabs are getting to where I want them to be so I threw them into my line to get them more consistent and was trying to manual the Euro to bank. Couldn’t get the manual but I was still proud of the first part of the line. Let off some steam while I was getting through the mental battle doing 50-50’s on the Pier 7 ledge. Overall not a bad session, hopefully tomorrow I can start overcoming some mental battles with some of the other stuff I used to skate.
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Went with my friend to a curb spot. He got a new trick and I got a clip and landed a trick I haven’t in a while. Was a good time.
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Went to the ol' shitpark for an evening session just as it was getting dark. I didn't really feel like skating but forced myself out since it's finally going to start raining here tomorrow and probably keep raining for a week, or more likely forever. Landed a few piss-poor tricks and had no motivation to try anything new or daring. Did a kickflip in the middle of the street on the way home. Official street skater now.
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soul carves paid off
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I’m on antibiotics rn, so it mainly was just me trying not to shit myself
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Nice Friday morning at the park. Met some cool people, did some nose slides, figured out what I was doing wrong with kickflips, left a deck for someone, went home.
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I swear if my kickflips are bad one day, heelflips are good instead and vice-versa. Went to the local again today and hopped around for a bit but didn't really get around to trying anything significant especially when the other locals came around. I was trying to study why my kickflips are so off and I think I've come up with a solution, but for each good kickflip I would try to hit the bank to box and noseslide, except I just didn't have it in me to commit. Played a game of skate with one of the locals, I was so fatigued at that point that I was so off balance, but I managed to get heelflips back pretty easily which made me happy. Got 3 heelflips and another kickflip in before I called it quits.
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Went to a new mini park over lunch...and almost killed myself on a concrete quarter. Did the always scary - board shoots out but then somehow stepped on it on the way down and just mised bashing my head on some oddly placed "decorative" boulders along the side, which I hadn't really noticed as a "thing" before they almost cracked my mellon. Then tried to get a simple line of Ollie up ledge, slash quarter, nose Manny ledge on way back and end with a small 50-50...and would always hate one of the 3. Went back to work and found garbage all over my site. I hate lazy people.
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Went back to Ye Olde Parking Garage last night after 2 overlapping days of work. Session was going okay, landed a few tricks and got the idea to lipslide the parking block. After rolling up several times and trying it on a dry block, I went for it. Ate shit a few times since the board flexed and my wheels hit the ground, but by some miracle I got through the slide and got out of it fakie somehow. I couldn't help but laugh after I landed it because of how lucky I got (plus a couple of beers in my system).
Also I finally hit the new skatepark in Birmingham AL and that park was fantastic. Slick as fuck but I got some wallies in, a bunch of grinds and the pump track was okay. Plus it's monitored at night.
wow sounds awesome!
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Went to my local (considered by many to bethe worst skate park in the state) tried to heelflip off a ledge, got a popsicle and was limping for 2 days. 4/10 sesh, got super close to landing it.
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Went for a park session today and man what a nightmare.
First I spent 30mins to clear the park from stones, glass, dirt and wood sticks.
The minute I stepped on my board I had dirt on my shoe and totally ruined my grip.
Then a bunch of nonskate people with small kids on toy cars and bikes flooded the park.
Played a warmup game of skate with the homie and snapped my board. It already was fucked so not that wild.
Set up a new one I had with me, snapped it on the first fucking tre on flat.
It didn't snapped completely so I keep on skating but i was so pissed , nothing really worked anymore.
Finally, I just skate the steep bank.
Never landed shit on this bank but today I gave it a try. Did a descent kickflip but this stupid rollerblade kid just crossed me on the way down. I ran him over and ate shit.
Somehow it felt great..
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My knee is screwed up, my ankles are stiff and weak. Everything hurt, I can't do what I used to ...
Yet ... it's the best feeling ever.
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Went for a park session today and man what a nightmare.
First I spent 30mins to clear the park from stones, glass, dirt and wood sticks.
The minute I stepped on my board I had dirt on my shoe and totally ruined my grip.
Then a bunch of nonskate people with small kids on toy cars and bikes flooded the park.
Played a warmup game of skate with the homie and snapped my board. It already was fucked so not that wild.
Set up a new one I had with me, snapped it on the first fucking tre on flat.
It didn't snapped completely so I keep on skating but i was so pissed , nothing really worked anymore.
Finally, I just skate the steep bank.
Never landed shit on this bank but today I gave it a try. Did a descent kickflip but this stupid rollerblade kid just crossed me on the way down. I ran him over and ate shit.
Somehow it felt great..
Man, you happen to live in Berlin, Germany too? Sounds exactly like my local park. I spent my last session in a park like that too, but only for a quick warm up. Then hit some spots with my homie. Got two clips. Will try to get that one clip a bit better some day. It was weird, that was the day after they set the time back for one hour. But it were still 20°C (68° F) and the sun was shining, at the end of October. Now it is winter time in Germany and it is dark at 5 pm which sucks.
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Went for a park session today and man what a nightmare.
First I spent 30mins to clear the park from stones, glass, dirt and wood sticks.
The minute I stepped on my board I had dirt on my shoe and totally ruined my grip.
Then a bunch of nonskate people with small kids on toy cars and bikes flooded the park.
Played a warmup game of skate with the homie and snapped my board. It already was fucked so not that wild.
Set up a new one I had with me, snapped it on the first fucking tre on flat.
It didn't snapped completely so I keep on skating but i was so pissed , nothing really worked anymore.
Finally, I just skate the steep bank.
Never landed shit on this bank but today I gave it a try. Did a descent kickflip but this stupid rollerblade kid just crossed me on the way down. I ran him over and ate shit.
Somehow it felt great..
Man, you happen to live in Berlin, Germany too? Sounds exactly like my local park. I spent my last session in a park like that too, but only for a quick warm up. Then hit some spots with my homie. Got two clips. Will try to get that one clip a bit better some day. It was weird, that was the day after they set the time back for one hour. But it were still 20°C (68° F) and the sun was shining, at the end of October. Now it is winter time in Germany and it is dark at 5 pm which sucks.
Not Berlin but near Nürnberg. I went extra early just because of the wintertime thing..
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My main set up is missing. It hurts really badly. I should have kept it with me when I went to play the show. People told me to leave it.
It's the most perfect set up I've ever made. Had all the extras.
Everyone knows my skateboard is my higher power. Everyone who's met me since 98 that skates knows that. It kills.
I got the rain board. I just got back. I'm landing every flat trick I try in under 4 tries. I have switch back 80 and nollie front 80. I only had nollie front 80s nice and boom! offa bumps and shit.
Turns out that fakie V is my favorite trick now as an adult.
I hope I find my shit soon. I got one more place to look but it's going to take me till Thursday because I need a ride.
It started to rain while I was out there so maybe it was meant to be for now. .
My soul is burnt as my poor brain tho.
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Returned to BS flips after a 2-3 month break from trying them... last time I couldn't get the full rotation without pretty much stopping or rolling away at snail speed.
Upon revisiting them in my last session I had a lot more success, rolled away from a good four or five at an acceptable pace, feel I can actually claim the trick now finally.
I have been doing BS1s a lot more during sessions in the intervening period so I suppose that's what's helped. Sitting back over the tail and keeping my torso more upright also.
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It's been dry the last couple of days so I got a few decent sessions in. Was supposed to be learning 5050s on the round bar but randomly decided to try fs noseslides instead. Surprisingly got 2 of them pretty quickly after fully committing. Personal NBD as I've only ever done fs boards on rails. This frontside guy is trying to relearn bs 5050s as well. Landed one on the small box after some non-committal tries. Also locked into a fs tail on the proper ledge for the first time in years. Working on some basic ledge lines and general consistency. Skateboarding has never been more fun for me despite it being a very solitary activity these days. Back at it again tomorrow to gently push myself out of my comfort zone without getting old man broken off.
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I went to the new curb spot. I’m stoked cause it’s lit at night. But someone took a huge dump right on the sidewalk and the smell was overpowering. Not so fun.
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I went to the new curb spot. I’m stoked cause it’s lit at night. But someone took a huge dump right on the sidewalk and the smell was overpowering. Not so fun.
That's satanic tho.
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After 20+ years of skating I finally understood back tails and last session I just went in full speed (still painfully slow) and got some in a line. Felt very very satisfying.
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I went to the new curb spot. I’m stoked cause it’s lit at night. But someone took a huge dump right on the sidewalk and the smell was overpowering. Not so fun.
True. A shit from the depths of hell
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Back to the parking garage again. Brought my flatbar with me. Got a couple of parking block slides in and manuals before I decided to learn how to switch ollie up a curb. Didn’t take too long and it felt solid. I moved onto my flatbar and got a 50-50 and boardslides before I started to relearn crooks again. I landed about three of them, one almost primo’d, second one was passable but I slightly turned on the push out and tapped the side of my board on the tail but my landing was clean, third one was a better nudge out but I was on two wheels for a bit. A couple came in while I was skating and the girl asked if I could do a couple of tricks. I rifled off a front shuv, boardslide and manual in a line before they headed off but she was happy with it. I’m starting to lose kickflips again. I think I just need to warm up with a few while I’m feeling fresh and then put them aside for the rest of the session. Hopefully the new kicks will help a bit too.
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two sessions ago, Susie Heath showed up to the park and I got to meet her! first pro I've ever met/seen skate IRL.
She's so talented and an immensely nice human being. working on getting fakie ollies back.
session last night was quick and just a stress reliever. sucks getting to the local at 515pm and only being able to skate an hour because it's so dark now (with only one streetlamp/flood light providing light after sunset). was surprised several skaters pulled up after I did, they must have better eyesight in the dark than I do!
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Skated the spot me and some friends share with a few guys I don't see often mainly due to skating at different times and different styles (Ledge skating vs transition). Learned Nose grabs and Indy off of our kicker so I'm stoked. Everyone ripped. Solid time.
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I nose slid the high ledge today. I'm on a tear with everything regular except kick flips. I have no idea what is wrong. I land primo almost always. Cab is my move rn. I can pivot 5 sometimes.
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Back to the parking garage again. Brought my flatbar with me. Got a couple of parking block slides in and manuals before I decided to learn how to switch ollie up a curb. Didn’t take too long and it felt solid. I moved onto my flatbar and got a 50-50 and boardslides before I started to relearn crooks again. I landed about three of them, one almost primo’d, second one was passable but I slightly turned on the push out and tapped the side of my board on the tail but my landing was clean, third one was a better nudge out but I was on two wheels for a bit. A couple came in while I was skating and the girl asked if I could do a couple of tricks. I rifled off a front shuv, boardslide and manual in a line before they headed off but she was happy with it. I’m starting to lose kickflips again. I think I just need to warm up with a few while I’m feeling fresh and then put them aside for the rest of the session. Hopefully the new kicks will help a bit too.
Switch ollie up a curb. I like that idea. Mine is so piss poor and that seems like a good way to force me to improve it. That or bust out the old broomstick to switch ollie over like when I learned how to regular ollie 25 years ago. My switch 180s are acceptable considering I never do anything switch or nollie but something about a straight-up switch ollie eludes me.
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Back to the parking garage again. Brought my flatbar with me. Got a couple of parking block slides in and manuals before I decided to learn how to switch ollie up a curb. Didn’t take too long and it felt solid. I moved onto my flatbar and got a 50-50 and boardslides before I started to relearn crooks again. I landed about three of them, one almost primo’d, second one was passable but I slightly turned on the push out and tapped the side of my board on the tail but my landing was clean, third one was a better nudge out but I was on two wheels for a bit. A couple came in while I was skating and the girl asked if I could do a couple of tricks. I rifled off a front shuv, boardslide and manual in a line before they headed off but she was happy with it. I’m starting to lose kickflips again. I think I just need to warm up with a few while I’m feeling fresh and then put them aside for the rest of the session. Hopefully the new kicks will help a bit too.
Switch ollie up a curb. I like that idea. Mine is so piss poor and that seems like a good way to force me to improve it. That or bust out the old broomstick to switch ollie over like when I learned how to regular ollie 25 years ago. My switch 180s are acceptable considering I never do anything switch or nollie but something about a straight-up switch ollie eludes me.
I‘ve been practicing switch ollies and got one over a small manhole cover (only just made it) but up a curb is another story. I got switch pop shuvs on lock, surprisingly.
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Not a good session today.
3 hours of time before it gets too dark. I can't handle time pressure sometimes, that stresses me.
Struggled one hour to do a sketchy varial heel into a super mellow bank. Looked at the footy and was even more disappointed at myself.
I want to get at least one good clip when I get out to skate the streets with my homies and the camera.
Maybe I am putting too much pressure on myself?
It should be fun but today didn't felt like that much fun.
Hated my homies, hated my shoes, hated my wheels.
Will switch my wheels before the next session.
Tuesday was a pretty good session, but that was in my local park.
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Had an appointment about an hr and a half from my house. I found a skate park nearby on Waze and it took me to a merry place. Had the park to myself and skated for almost three hours. There was like a 4” high curb/ledge someone had brought…I skated that the most and realized I need to make one like that. The slappy curbs coming off the mellow a frame were fun too.
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Snowskating at Mt Hood for preseason! The mountain was only open for 3 days because conditions got really raw.
Very fun for snowskate when it gets like that because it's all knobby and firm and there are a lot of exposed rocks and logs to jib. It has more of a giant concrete flow park feel than a ski resort feel.
Was carnage though. Lots of people taking rides on the ski patrol toboggan.
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I keep forgetting to bring wax to start the new curb. I been skating flat and doing stalls there every day for months. It's definitely my spot and the locals are cool with it after seeing my Pro AF behavior.
Today I was doing various 80 up a sidewalk then a quick footed stall on the top curb - 270 out -trick off the lower curb. Super fun way to basically do a 900 kinda.
I'm going to add manuals so it's just one little combo.I'm going to wax the top curb and part of the sidewalk curb.
I like to back 80 off and clip my front truck like a switch bs 5 oh. You know like Ollie oop- case the curb. Mmm mmm good
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Finally got back out today for a decent session. Wire brushed and waxed up the entire length of the rusty steel coping on the long ass ledge, then worked on trying to see how much of it I could 50-50. Got about halfway. It's pretty long, I estimate maybe 50 feet. I'll measure it tomorrow cause I am curious to know its exact dimensions. I could roll in on the steep ass bank and just charge it but feels like I will eat shit super hard. I just kickturn 3/4 of the way up then attack with moderate speed but it's definitely not fast enough. Got a decent little line too, front nose down the round bar (it's still on flat but angled) fs 5-0 ledge, rock fakie then half cab nose little pop out on the start of the same ledge. Worked on 360 flips for a while then got mad and decided to try 360 shoves instead which felt better. Should have them tomorrow. Really wanted to try to lock into a few fs crooked grinds but that trick is fucking stupid. I think I'll focus on half-cab crooked grinds instead which seem easier to me than straight-up crooks for the same reason my half-cab noseslide is infinitely better than my bs noselide. Might try to re-learn bs 180 nosegrinds also. backside 5050s too if I'm not being a big pussy baby cause I know I can do them. I could kickflip bs 5050 this damn ledge when I was in my 20s so no excuses...
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Had an appointment about an hr and a half from my house. I found a skate park nearby on Waze and it took me to a merry place. Had the park to myself and skated for almost three hours. There was like a 4” high curb/ledge someone had brought…I skated that the most and realized I need to make one like that. The slappy curbs coming off the mellow a frame were fun too.
Is this the weird fenced in tennis court park like 20-30 minutes outside of Philly? Ended up there randomly a few years ago while visiting friends in the area.
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35,5°F / 2°C
I had 2 Hoodies and a Windbreaker on but warming up was a big hassle today.. it almost took me the whole session to get some feeling in my toes too. And I forgot my gloves.
So I just played arround basically. Tried to boardslide the complete flatbar, arround 3.5 meters but only made it 3/4 .
Learned bs bigspin on a quarterpipe. Pretty sketch but I was stoked. My kickflips coming slowly back to "normal".
That's a big plus for boosting my confidence overall.
Played a game of skate against myself to keep my basics going. Nobody wants to skate in the cold with me. But I had the whole park for myself so that's something I guess.
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Couldn't commit to a trick i 100% could have landed first go
That's the way she goes
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I had not one but two sessions today. Despite the forecast it was sunny (but cold). I broke in my new deck and wheels on the parking lot with some flatground, and in the afternoon went to the slappyspot. As acherry on top I set up the flatbar and had some fun. Tried to learn lipslides but they are so scary. Came close tho, it‘s all in the mind.
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Skated with my roommate best friend, a cool crisp sunny late autumn day
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Got to the park, tried a bs bigspin, landed to heavy on the tail and snapped my shit. I’m no stranger to flatground board breaks but never on a bigspin. It’s sort of a light footed trick. Whatever, I’m ballin’ so I got hella decks on deck. I’ll skate again soon.
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Went to a skatepark with a unsackable downrail that isn't steep and managed to back board it, first time ever skating something like this so I'm stoked.
It was much easier than I expected too, the impact when landing was annoying but at least I felt pretty stable.
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Waited til everyone left and tried to learn boardslides. It did not go well. It's funny, I can do front boards well enough but can't do a regular backside one to save my life. I always tell myself not to waste time trying to learn new tricks and just focus on the handful of tricks I have, or at most relearn something I could do at one point in my life. Having said that, next year I'm finally going to get around to learning 360 flips and crooked grinds. Tomorrow I will re-learn fs tailslides and/or bs 5-0s. Trying to set achievable goals so I can have a bit of progression and not feel so stagnant or unfocused. Baby steps seem to be the key though. A few years back when I tried to really get back into skateboarding again I just went all out and got wrecked pretty badly. Lost all confidence and then gave it up again until this summer. Skateboarding is weird but I love it.
This kook didn't even try to learn either ledge trick and had the worst session yesterday. Granted I wasted all my energy moving stupid boxes the lame bmx'ers left in front of my beloved ledge. Had way more fun playing with a paper airplane my son found than skateboarding. At least joy and fun were had somehow.
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landed a few skkrpop tings
and fthttttunkd some wonky ledge/gutter
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Went to the local indoor park because the weather's been awful for weeks and got some decent fatty to flatty tres. Also saw a blader and a skater, both in their 30s, exchange blows over who snaked who. Some legit "what year is this" shit.
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Out of the all of the flip tricks that I have, sw fs flips have always eluded me. I have a good sw flip and sw fs 180, but I've always struggled to put them together. Got to the park on Friday afternoon (I work a 9/80 schedule so I had this last Friday off) and I made the decision to dedicate the last half of my session to getting at least one sw fs flip. I went through so many different foot placements for the front and back foot. After throwing them around for an hour and getting frustrated, I said fuck it, I'm going to put my feet in the same position that I use for switch ollies and see what happens. It ended up flipping perfectly and I landed right on it and slipped out because I was not expecting to land on it. Threw those around for another 15 minutes and finally rolled away from one perfectly. I always thought that it required the front to be pointed and hanging off for it work, but I found that it requires more of your foot to be on the board so that it can get that lift with a flick at the last second.
TL/DR I finally figured out sw fs flips and I'm stoked.
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Pissed all over the inside of me pants and it was freezing out, stayed out and had a good time regardless
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Pissed all over the inside of me pants and it was freezing out, stayed out and had a good time regardless
damn dude that's fucked up
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Ate an obscene amount of food, chips, hummus, cereal, and mango Chile suckers while waiting for my dinner to be ready, then I ate that: veggie burger on sourdough English muffin with sundried tomato tepenade, and home made potato wedges (yes I was stoned). Told myself I’d go out skating so I did, 34 degrees out and by the end it was down to 30 and I was soaked. Walked to the spot and didn’t feel that cold, felt sluggish from all the food though. Double sided red curb, paint was super brittle, I assume from being pelted with rain for days on end. Got it going and ran through my warm ups, Slappy feeble, Slappy crook, “nollie” lip, switch board. Tried Slappy feeble to 5-0, but it would just spit me off the curb immediately. Also current board has a shorter wheelbase so felt a little off. After that I was messing with this corner curb where I was doing a little wallie up to bs 5-0, eventually started just wallie-ing it and I was surprised how much air I was getting off it. So did a little line, wallie, fs slap this curb that’s so straight up I swear it’s like “over vert”, then no comply 180. Felt good. Ended by skating a manny pad and parking block across the street. Did a nose stall to pull over on the other side, but a huge crack and blind bumps made it super hard to roll away (maybe I should bondo them? :p)
Walked home sweating through 3 layers and a beanie, felt good.
Sprayed a curb at a church but stopped before I wanted to because I saw a cop slowing down and turning in. So I gtfo’d and went home for a shit shower shave.
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hit my ribs and my hand on a flat rail down at the old skatepark
starting to think im too old to skate during winter
love you all
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Back to the parking garage again. Brought my flatbar with me. Got a couple of parking block slides in and manuals before I decided to learn how to switch ollie up a curb. Didn’t take too long and it felt solid. I moved onto my flatbar and got a 50-50 and boardslides before I started to relearn crooks again. I landed about three of them, one almost primo’d, second one was passable but I slightly turned on the push out and tapped the side of my board on the tail but my landing was clean, third one was a better nudge out but I was on two wheels for a bit. A couple came in while I was skating and the girl asked if I could do a couple of tricks. I rifled off a front shuv, boardslide and manual in a line before they headed off but she was happy with it. I’m starting to lose kickflips again. I think I just need to warm up with a few while I’m feeling fresh and then put them aside for the rest of the session. Hopefully the new kicks will help a bit too.
Switch ollie up a curb. I like that idea. Mine is so piss poor and that seems like a good way to force me to improve it. That or bust out the old broomstick to switch ollie over like when I learned how to regular ollie 25 years ago. My switch 180s are acceptable considering I never do anything switch or nollie but something about a straight-up switch ollie eludes me.
I forgot to check this thread. Switch ollies up curbs all come down to timing. It took me a little bit to keep my nose from hitting the curb, but once I got it right, it all came down to keeping my balance once I got up the curb. Plus putting most of your weight on your popping leg to get as much pop as you can.
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every single sessions boils down to me obsessing over flat ground kickflips, i can nollie flip and switch flip pretty good but my kickflips are kinda trash tbh
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-3c/26.5f outside, lasted 30 mins before I just couldn't be arsed with freezing my balls off.
I'll happily snowboard in minus god knows what temps, but skating in freezing temperatures is just miserable.
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I am still recovering from an infected wound but it was snowing so I thought I might as well take out the snowskate and just learned front shuvs.
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Had a session after a long time a week ago or something it just came to mind; it was cut incredibly short for insane reasons. I stepped out and skated to the curb spot and did wallrides and front tails untill the wax was completely off my tail. then i skated to tompkins but literally stopped at 10th and A because a man was standing in the middle of the street in a sombrero and jacking off, his pants were at his ankles and a car was like trying to get around him. As soon as I saw this it literally began raining, so i skated back up ave A and went home.
fuck
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Got a flatground skate session under a roofed parking lot in the morning and then right after that a short flatbar session on another parking lot that had dried up. It was around -3 C / 26,6 F.
Later on I went on a walk in the forest with my wife and took the snowskate with me, got a nice kickflip and a fun downhill on the way back.
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I sucked worse than I ever sucked
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Went to a college on. New years after begging a homie to come with me to move an entire picnic table halfway across campus to put it down some stairs. Took us a while but we got the trick and avoided anyone
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Went to my slappy spot which is half covered, half open in the morning. The uncovered part was still wet meaning I only could do backside stuff (roll up dry, roll out into the wet, tic tac back to the dry). Got some bs crooks and a nice bs 50/50, then introduced my new deck to Mr Flatbar.
I returned in the afternoon and it was dry, so I got to do some frontside 50/50s and then dedicated a half hour to fs crooks. I can do them on a lacquered parking block where you just fall of at the end of the block but was never able to "pop out" of a curb. Today I finally got them applying a technique I learned on Slap, i.e. backfoot in heel pocket. Got at least one decent one. Hope to get them dialed soon.
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Gnarred everyone on this page for going outside and playing skateboard.
Had 30 minutes of free time today. It was all wet everywhere. Took my rain board outta the trunk. All 4 wheels were stuck and didn't spin that well. I pushed like a maniac and after a few minutes the wheels were free from dirt. First time skating the 440 lows. Trying a thicker insole next time.
I did a few Ollies, Kickflips, Heelflips and Fs Shuvs. Then my grip was completely wet and I had to go and carry on with some adult stuff. 8/10 would go again next time.
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Went out to my local after a long day at work and saw a buddy of mine I haven't seen in a few years after he moved back here. He was trying all kinds of crazy shit but he's always a blast to skate with since he tries anything. I'm feeling out a few things, not really doing a lot but I play SKATE with him and he gets me on a fakie flip, which I never do after I rolled my ankle on it many years ago. A new kid starts trying half cabs and is pushing me to keep with the fakie flip, I got really close, but just ran out of steam. The kid said he liked the way I rolled switch, it looked "accurate", so that felt pretty good after a bunch of tries. I'll be back at it today after a 12 hour shift.
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I sucked worse than I ever sucked
I sucked a little less than this session but I still sucked lol
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Yesterday was the first time I cut a session short because I wasn‘t feeling it (plus ate shit on a flatground switch manny). I was super angry and frustrated all day. Luckily, today was better. I skated this mellow bank spot and managed to do most of my tricks on the bank.
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I just got nose grinds back. Yes! It took me from 2016 to today to frontside pop out. I still can't nose Manny though without a hang up still.
I'm so happy. I finally feel well rounded in the craft.
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I told a bunch of kids to take their bags off the manual pad....then they had to watch me battle a nose manual.....
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The past couple of trips to the park have been like a blast to the past. I saw another friend of mine I haven’t seen in years skating and he was killing it, like he hadn’t taken a whole year off. I was pushing to noseslide the bank to box but I think the ledge is grabbing the edge of my baseplate and keeping me from sliding. That and I lost kickflips again. I need to spread out my days as to what I plan on skating because I feel like I’m not getting better at anything.
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it was very nice
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Gnarred everyone on this page for going outside and playing skateboard.
Had 30 minutes of free time today. It was all wet everywhere. Took my rain board outta the trunk. All 4 wheels were stuck and didn't spin that well. I pushed like a maniac and after a few minutes the wheels were free from dirt. First time skating the 440 lows. Trying a thicker insole next time.
I did a few Ollies, Kickflips, Heelflips and Fs Shuvs. Then my grip was completely wet and I had to go and carry on with some adult stuff. 8/10 would go again next time.
Inspired by this post I took an old set up to the slappy curb despite wet ground and light rain. It was ok, not great but better than not skating. Will do it again, if the bearings don‘t clog up too much.
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i tried to learn frontside slappies, i can not figure these out at all. it's pretty pathetic because i can backslide slappy all day like nothing.
also i did a decent nollie front 180, i can never do those but i set up a new quasi and everything just works on that board aside from front slappies of course
its a ps stix and idc what anybody says i fucking love this thing, probably one of the best boards i've ever had
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My session with my cousin and his daughters. I was almost having tears of joy seeing another round of kids in my family pushing around on the slushy bricks.
Has me thinking about the 80s and 90s. Teaching my whole family how to bomb a hill and push around. That's skating.
I'm so proud
Here's my magic foul weather board. Still going after like 5 or 6 seasons
(https://i.ibb.co/2FMTcXV/IMG-20230107-204256-909.webp) (https://ibb.co/Zfg0cy4)
(https://i.ibb.co/ygkcFWY/IMG-20230107-204257-122.webp) (https://ibb.co/r5pR24c)
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I've been trying to work strength back up and did some kick turns and mini manuals in my kitchen. Don't know if that counts, but it felt good to me.
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Got to get out and skate early for the first time all week. Enjoyed an empty skatepark sesh, landed my go-tos although flip tricks weren’t really on my side today. But im always stoked to land at least one 360 flip a sesh.
i tried to learn frontside slappies, i can not figure these out at all. it's pretty pathetic because i can backslide slappy all day like nothing.
I have the exact opposite problem, i find approaching backside slappies to be a completely foreign feeling then frontside which I have on lock.
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Yesterday i was talking with the youngsters that i haven't been breaking any decks for more than 10 years and today i landed a flip in the ugliest possible way with both feet in the middle so i broke the unbreakable spell :D
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I've been trying to work strength back up and did some kick turns and mini manuals in my kitchen. Don't know if that counts, but it felt good to me.
Everything counts that makes you happy. Unless you alter the spot. That negates all tricks.
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Weekend update
Sat had some errands and things to do.
Hit my curb spot again. It's been my go to since covid hit.
Hardly ever go anywhere else anymore. It's a rouine or "rutine"...
Slappy's, slappy noseslide and trying to relearn some old curb tricks lately.
Sun
Cleaned up around house
Watched the Eagle win
Went to curb spot again. Happy to be out there at this age and still having fun.
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Got off work and ran some errands, between rains, uprooted trees and debris everywhere. Then skated a new double sided curb I’d never seen before. Ran through my go tos and they worked out pretty easy, most first try, so that was really nice. Then I left my setup at the bus stop and didn’t realize til I was on the bus. Now I’m in the market for new trucks since cause all I have won’t fit or are completely busted :(
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Did all my go to flatland, a couple of crooked variations, started landing bs flips quite consistently again and apparently herniated a lumbar disc FML
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First nice, clean, and poppy b/s Ollies on transition in maybe 8 years. Nice to have them back
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Skated my old curb spot with the wheelchair ramp yesterday. Started obsessing over kickflips but I started to realize after the sesh that my legs are just not pulling up like they need to for all my tricks. Gonna try to work on my pop this week. I did land some shuvs and 180's on the ramp but I couldn't do anything off the curb cut since the water was still draining from the grass. I gotta start hitting up that spot every Sunday since that whole lot is closed.
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Weekend update
Sat had some errands and things to do.
Hit my curb spot again. It's been my go to since covid hit.
Hardly ever go anywhere else anymore. It's a rouine or "rutine"...
Slappy's, slappy noseslide and trying to relearn some old curb tricks lately.
Sun
Cleaned up around house
Watched the Eagle win
Went to curb spot again. Happy to be out there at this age and still having fun.
Go birds!
I don’t know if this counts as a session but I skated flat in the parking lot behind my neighbors house for a quick 10 minutes when I saw a window between my doing stuff around the house when my one year old was taking a nap and my wife was watching a tv show. All the shoves, kicky, 360 flip and nollie flip and some other tricks real quick. 2 out of 2 360 flips is still a 100% success rate. Felt pretty good which was impressive because my legs were a bit sore and I hurt my shoulder the day before. Always feels good to get out. Got back in to help with dinner and watch the birds.
I’m trying to take any opportunity I have now because I used to be a need to skate like 4 times a week person to feel good on the board but it’s been pretty hard with weather, work, a baby and other responsibilities but any time I see a window that won’t get my wife pissed at me I’m taking now matter how short.
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Weekend update
Sat had some errands and things to do.
Hit my curb spot again. It's been my go to since covid hit.
Hardly ever go anywhere else anymore. It's a rouine or "rutine"...
Slappy's, slappy noseslide and trying to relearn some old curb tricks lately.
Sun
Cleaned up around house
Watched the Eagle win
Went to curb spot again. Happy to be out there at this age and still having fun.
Go birds!
I don’t know if this counts as a session but I skated flat in the parking lot behind my neighbors house for a quick 10 minutes when I saw a window between my doing stuff around the house when my one year old was taking a nap and my wife was watching a tv show. All the shoves, kicky, 360 flip and nollie flip and some other tricks real quick. 2 out of 2 360 flips is still a 100% success rate. Felt pretty good which was impressive because my legs were a bit sore and I hurt my shoulder the day before. Always feels good to get out. Got back in to help with dinner and watch the birds.
I’m trying to take any opportunity I have now because I used to be a need to skate like 4 times a week person to feel good on the board but it’s been pretty hard with weather, work, a baby and other responsibilities but any time I see a window that won’t get my wife pissed at me I’m taking now matter how short.
Gotta get it in where ya can! Fly Eagles Fly!
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Somebody let their dog shit right in the middle of my favorite flatground/warm up spot, couldn't warm up bc I knew I was gonna forget and roll over it,
went to the park, hopped the fence cuz it was locked up for the night, skated for twenty minutes, got a bad feeling, ran out the park asap and ten seconds later cops roll up super fast with lights on and no siren, i'm going the opposite direction so they pull a u turn, follow me for like 5 blocks (even though I'm taking weird turns) before giving up and leaving me alone (they were mad as shit lol fuck them)
Go to my other flatground spot, they're doing construction
go to the manny pad, right when I get there a laundry truck parks right in front of the pad
go to a ledge spot in a two-way bike lane, its past midnight and cold so theres no pedestrians and barely any bikes (only time of the year you can comfortably skate it), do like two noseslides and cop car pulls into the bike lane and starts going up it super slow, they had no reason to do this besides fucking with me, didnt even say anything to me or make eye contact which was weird, I thought they were gonna kick me out at least
it's 1am in nyc in January, i'm not getting in anybody's way and not skating in front of any apartments or anything, can they just leave me the fuck alone? I'm just trying to skate fucking flat somewhere with decent ground within a half hour of my apartment and I can't catch a break. Fuck the NYPD
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I had to skate for like five hours waiting for a drive up order on Sunday. Ended up landing my first ever fs flip which got me hella hyped. Then I started working on getting fs 5-0 to switch crook on this long mellow bank. Got a kind of make but I need to work on really jamming my wheel on the back heel side up on top of the coping. Hope to get both tricks really dialed in this year
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I went for a cruise around Boston last night and skated some curbs with my boy
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Went to my tennis court spot this morning. It was like 28 degrees. Took me way too long to get warmed up, plus I decided to use a new set-up with my Ace 44s.
I enjoy how they turn, but I may have to sideline them again. Indys just do a better job at supporting me at 240lbs. Might try Ace again once I lose some weight.
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Went back to the local to work on my pop and a few other tricks. Overall, not a bad sesh. I got up the 2 stair a few times and the 2 stair euro gap. I practiced kickflips for about 10 minutes and practiced some self control and after I landed a couple of decent ones stopped myself so I wouldn't waste my energy. My only hang-up is the noseslide on the bank to box. The ledge is getting chunky at the meeting point between the angle iron and concrete and my baseplate keeps grabbing on it. Might just be because they're new trucks but I may just have to skate that earlier and not keep trying it afterwards. Just gotta balance what I spend my energy on, but wasn't a bad sesh at all.
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Skated in my mom's yard that has a concrete bit during a recent visit, better than a skatepark tbh, I just need a box and a flatbar to put there.
First ever landed switch flip, the 'switch is unnecessary' thread gave me will to try for like an hour, all I had to do was put my front foot closer to the edge to make flipping easier when kicking down, since I can't flick yet.
A lot of close attempts but it kept wanting to varial because of my back foot almost on the edge to balance against the front foot on the opposite edge.
I had to skate for like five hours waiting for a drive up order on Sunday. Ended up landing my first ever fs flip which got me hella hyped.
Congrats! This is one of the tricks I don't understand, I can probably do it the muska way but it wouldn't feel right.
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Got a sesh in right after work yesterday at an old church parking lot. It has a downhill manny pad and a double curb cut on the other side. Flatground wasn't going great so I decided to try a manual on the double curb cut. The downslope portion threw me off at first, but I got my weight distribution right and landed it after several tries. Got a couple more flatground tricks in and left. I went to my family's dinner since my cousins flew in from Cali and as it turns out, the youngest kid is learning how to skate! I gave him my extra board to ride on and he had a blast, I even landed a no comply 180 and I haven't done that trick in a long time.
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was shitty ass sesh on wet floor...
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Skated a round bar that I installed recently for like 5+ hours straight.
It's like a foot high which I thought would be perfect but it may be too short, while it was safe to attempt anything my baby ollies were flying over it, with a lot of impact on the way down. I hope I'll just get used to it.
Attempted 50 50s for the first time, countless close ones with me just getting stuck at the end but I felt no control or consistency getting into them, most of the times the back truck locked toe side.
Most sad shit is that it did not feel good at all, my body tries to slowly spin like I'm gonna front board to fakie, and turning the other way feels god awful. I may try front smith or lip next to force that movement. Or give up and try other shit for a while.
I tried kickflip back board a few times and almost landed it but I didn't wanna risk breaking my board. A bit scary too but it felt easy
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when u 50 a round rail its easier to imagine it as a ledge (i.e. you cant fall off toeside), then it becomes easier to put your weight in the right spot. i also hate round rails so take this advice with a pinch of sodium chloride
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Sure I'll focus on that thought the next time and see what happens
Till then I'll try to think of other shit I wouldn't try at a skatepark, full cab boardslide came to mind already
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Set up a new board. Went to the park. Hadn't been out in almost a month. Wobbly and unstable getting used to the new deck with not fully broken in trucks in cold weather. The shit ground was shredding my grip tape and gouging the fuck out of my ps stix deck. Was freezing and started snowing dry little flecks. A rare sight of a young skater kid. He was stoked on my new board and old wheels for some reason. Faux pas graphics out. Said he wanted spitfires... If he keeps showing up I'll hook him up with the wheels when they wear down to 53-54 mm from 56 full conical honkers. Was a frustrating session in the end but still felt good to land a few shitty flip tricks / pop shoves and grind my trucks on the ledge.
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Set up a new board. Went to the park. Hadn't been out in almost a month. Wobbly and unstable getting used to the new deck with not fully broken in trucks in cold weather. The shit ground was shredding my grip tape and gouging the fuck out of my ps stix deck. Was freezing and started snowing dry little flecks. A rare sight of a young skater kid. He was stoked on my new board and old wheels for some reason. Faux pas graphics out. Said he wanted spitfires... If he keeps showing up I'll hook him up with the wheels when they wear down to 53-54 mm from 56 full conical honkers. Was a frustrating session in the end but still felt good to land a few shitty flip tricks / pop shoves and grind my trucks on the ledge.
You make this sound like a poem. Anyway good to read you‘re out skating! Myself I landed a switch ollie over the world‘s smallest curb today. I was stoked because I never switch ollied over anything before.
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Kind of a bummer. I am in Europe and wanted a clip while I'm here. Munich has all of these little barriers by the streets that are like flatbars. Wanted a fs Smith on one. Went to a park to warm up and pulled a muscle in my thigh pretty quick. Still tried to go for the Smith, spent about 40 minutes trying it but every attempt hurt. Gave up. No clip for me.
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Yesterday worked up until 3:30 a.m. so today I could go to the park and film some silly line. The filmer in question didn't show up, so I skated for 3 hours continuously. Now I'm a little sore but those are details. I love skateboarding.
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A couple of the older guys who skate very seldom both happened to show up at the park on the same day, along with a bunch of us still-regulars. With the old gang back together and the pink sunset in the background, it was a very nostalgic vibe, but all the obvious differences between then and now gave plenty for the mind to chew on.
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Had a great session. Dismantled four of my setups yesterday so now I only have one left, it’s what I’m sticking to for at least the next year. Felt good knowing that the madness was over, and the weather was nice.
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skated flat ground at a nearby church. got sweaty and slammed a couple of times, I think because I was coming down from weed. hands all bloody. hip/right leg alternating between pain and numbness. felt better afterwards.
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I got the urge to go skate around 9pm, headed to the ledge near my house, but there were teenagers there smoking shitty weed and blasting gangster rap so I went home without my tail hitting the ground once.
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I got the urge to go skate around 9pm, headed to the ledge near my house, but there were teenagers there smoking shitty weed and blasting gangster rap so I went home without my tail hitting the ground once.
I got the urge to go skate around 10am, headed to the ledge near my house, there was no one since it's still school holidays and I got a back nose, a long front 50/50 and a nice back 50/50. Failed on the front 5/0 but was stoked nevertheless.
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I got the urge to go skate around 9pm, headed to the ledge near my house, but there were teenagers there smoking shitty weed and blasting gangster rap so I went home without my tail hitting the ground once.
I got the urge to go skate around 10am, headed to the ledge near my house, there was no one since it's still school holidays and I got a back nose, a long front 50/50 and a nice back 50/50. Failed on the front 5/0 but was stoked nevertheless.
Stoked for you :) must be nice haha
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I got the urge to go skate around 9pm, headed to the ledge near my house, but there were teenagers there smoking shitty weed and blasting gangster rap so I went home without my tail hitting the ground once.
one of em probably has a bomb ass tre tbh
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I got the urge to go skate around 9pm, headed to the ledge near my house, but there were teenagers there smoking shitty weed and blasting gangster rap so I went home without my tail hitting the ground once.
one of em probably has a bomb ass stanky leg tre tbh
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I got the urge to go skate around 9pm, headed to the ledge near my house, but there were teenagers there smoking shitty weed and blasting gangster rap so I went home without my tail hitting the ground once.
one of em probably has a bomb ass tre tbh
Worst part is none of them skate. One of them is a convicted felon for punching his grandmother in the face and another one tried to sell me pills and when I said no he called me a faggot because “if your pants go past your ankles you’re gay”
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I got the urge to go skate around 9pm, headed to the ledge near my house, but there were teenagers there smoking shitty weed and blasting gangster rap so I went home without my tail hitting the ground once.
one of em probably has a bomb ass tre tbh
Worst part is none of them skate. One of them is a convicted felon for punching his grandmother in the face and another one tried to sell me pills and when I said no he called me a faggot because “if your pants go past your ankles you’re gay”
What a crew. I can see why you Abe Simpson'd the spot.
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sometimes you gotta correct grandma bro
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Went to the indoor park again, I was the only skater there. A scooter kid slammed on his face, knocked him self out. I had a really good session overall. My miniramp skating improved a lot this winter. Skated flat for a few minutes but it was kinda hard to find space between bikers and scooters so I tried some stuff over the euro.
Got a few nice FS shuvs and finally 360 flipped it. Kinda sketch but I take it. Then I went for the ledge, got a BS crook first try.. This is kinda unusual for me so I was pretty stoked. Tried FS Shuv to BS 5-0 but my body wasn't down with this motion. I always rotate frontside like i would try a FS big spin.. Need to try this on something lower next time. I kinda struggle with my FS tails on this ledge. I made a few but I can't slide it out. It always sticks, even with a good amount of wax. I didn't wanted to over wax it so i called it a day.
I hope it finally stops raining soon, I can't see this place anymore.
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A scooter kid slammed on his face, knocked him self out. good session overall.
That does sound like a cool sesh, and congrats on the tre, I suck at em
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Acceptable bs Ollie on super tight 3ft transition first go. Acceptable Ollie to fakie and nollie to fakie maybe 2nd or 3rd attempt. Life is good.
Edit: thought I was done with bs Ollie's on transition as been maybe 5-6 years since the last one's and getting older but I was thankfully wrong...
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started beautiful, like 55-60 and sunny, light wind, ended with temps dropping bitterly cold and 25mph winds. the good homies were at the park, vibes were a-plenty. us 'old heads' having a grand ol time while the 2 cool 4 skool young kids stood around and did A trick every 30 minutes. the homie was fuckin around with switch back nose back 180 out and reeled in a few. i was fuckin around with boardslide to pop-overs on the flat bar, ended up catching a bs to 5-0 bonk on the end that sent the fellas into an absolute fury. on the way home i stopped and picked up some chinese takeout for m'lady and i.
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Went for a slappy session at temp. around freezing but with a strong cold wind so with windchill it was -5C / 23F. Luckily I got all my stuff pretty quickly and could call it a day. There were some kids asking me if I could ollie and I told them I could but would not because it was Sunday and on Sunday all I did was slappies. They understood this and stopped bothering me.
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I went to the skatepark yesterday and had a nice session. I did the best backside 5050 I've ever done on an out ledge that I've been wanting to try but I'm always afraid to back fifty anything other than a curb or ledge. Felt so good when I landed it perfectly. I also did a nollie fs flip, nollie vflip, and fakie vflip on the bank. Overall was a good progression session.
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I skated with some friends and it was fun
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Hadn't skated for a week as haemorrhoids took me out of play... both agonisingly painful (worst episode of it i've had) and terrible timing as the weather has finally sorted itself out.
Got out today for a tentative push around and felt so much better mentally for it, I hadn't realised quite how shitty I'd been feeling dealing with my ass all week and barely being able to walk anywhere, never mind much else.
Smashed out a few of the basics and skated flat for an hour or so, wasn't super comfortable for obvious reasons, but it didn't make things any worse.
Wondering if a kickflip is going make something fall out your ass, is a new experience for me...pushing 40 I guess this is an occupational hazard now lol.
Managed to knock out a backside flip to end the session, which made me chuckle to myself.
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Broke my board trying to learn lipslides last time I skated. Got a board for cheap with a terrible graphic. Spent time painting over it and set it up today. On the skate to the park I terminally ripped my favorite pair of jeans. Attempted 5 lipslides and broke the new board.
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Rolled my ankle and went home. Next day, skated my other foot, I fell and went home.
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It’s been raining a lot but lastnight after work I went to the mall to get my son a present, didn’t feel like skating. Rode a little on the sidewalk outside the mall and some teenage girls said do a kickflip (mockingly) I obliged even though I was wearing a backpack and was in general pain. They seemed shocked lol. Then I saw a freshly painted crusty curb in front of Barnes and noble and did a decent length Slappy and some kid went “sheeesh” in a high pitched voice lol.
Couple days before I had a Slappy session and did all my usuals and a crook popover fairly quickly. Then worked on nollie fs 180s, landed a couple with nice pop, cashed my check and it started hailing. Picked my son up from school and called it a day.
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Tried front shuv back 50. Missed the 50. Zipped out coming off the 4 inch ledge. Fell on my ribs on the edge of the ledge. Bruised ribs a bit. Not enough to end the session. Enough that it hurts to lay on that side of my body or raise my hand over my head now.
That was fun.
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Rolled my ankle and went home. Next day, skated my other foot, I fell and went home.
you and i out here having a blast
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Yesterday was the only day it hasn't rained in almost a week so I hit the local slappy spot in the middle of the day with some lunch in tow. Warmed up, ate, stretched, and seshed for a bit by myself. Then I met two college kids there who were mostly beginners but super stoked on skating. They kept giving me compliments and since I was nice to them, they were asking me for tips on learning slappys and front 5050s and other stuff. We skated together for awhile and within an hour, they both learned slappys! According to them, one of them had never even gotten close before that day. They wanted me to film some clips with them so I did and we exchanged numbers. More random people were showing up to the spot and it was chill until a huge squad of little ass kids showed up and kept hogging every good part of the spot. Then two older dudes I kinda know showed up and we skated for awhile but we ended up mostly chopping it up.
I think I was at the spot for at least 4 hours and skated for a good chunk of that. Overall very fun session and I'm stoked to kind of make some new skate friends that actually live in my town!
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I skated sunday night and it was quiet so I felt like I was making a bunch of noise. A whole convoy of buses parked next to the skatepark made me feel like I had an auidience or that I was bothering people with the lights and noise. I had the skatepark completely to myself and it was fantastic.
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I went out at temperatures below freezing with a disgusting wind in a light snowfall (didn't stick so no issue) but had a nice session. I got my three mandatory heelflips pretty quickly and (once again) feel like I am close to having them dialed. Backfoot hanging from the heel pocket, not too far back on the tail seems to be the sweet spot.
However, my deck starts to rapidly disintegrate so I'll have to change it soon and I already dread I might have to work them out all over again, even if the new deck will have mostly identical dims as the current one (8.38 twin).
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Broke my board trying to learn lipslides last time I skated. Got a board for cheap with a terrible graphic. Spent time painting over it and set it up today. On the skate to the park I terminally ripped my favorite pair of jeans. Attempted 5 lipslides and broke the new board.
This is why I'm wary of lipslides on flatbars or down rails. There is always the thought of breaking my board looming over me as I ride up to try it. Despite them being considered illegal, nollie front lips allow for more control over how much weight you put down on the rail when you pop into it. Use them sparingly and with caution. You will be judged for each one you do.
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turns out round rail noseslides are actually the same exact shit as on a ledge, if I knew that I'd have tried them before, still can't land 50s
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it was my second time at my local DIY and my first time actually skating it, i'm a beginner and i wanted to use the banks to practice kickturns and pumping and stuff
i waited for a cold cloudy day so there would only be a few people and didn't interact with anyone besides awkwardly reciprocating a guy's dap and "you good"ing a guy who fell
it was nice though, it's a great spot
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turns out round rail noseslides are actually the same exact shit as on a ledge, if I knew that I'd have tried them before, still can't land 50s
I got a mental block on those but will try some on my flatbar based on your post. If I can man up.
it was my second time at my local DIY and my first time actually skating it, i'm a beginner and i wanted to use the banks to practice kickturns and pumping and stuff
i waited for a cold cloudy day so there would only be a few people and didn't interact with anyone besides awkwardly reciprocating a guy's dap and "you good"ing a guy who fell
it was nice though, it's a great spot
Well done for overcoming your reluctance. Most people won‘t care what you do in a skatepark/diy so just do your thing as long as you don‘t get in the way of someones lines. And even if that happens just excuse and it will be good.
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turns out round rail noseslides are actually the same exact shit as on a ledge, if I knew that I'd have tried them before, still can't land 50s
I had this same revelation last year. Still, I can only do fs board or fs nose on rails lol... But Ima take 5050s to the round bar this year and get some smith grinds too
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I've been skating an indoor ramp by myself for the last 1.5 years, and only recently have been skating with friends and other skateboarders on a more regular basis. It feels good. Last session I did the best mini-ramp line I've ever done, which was still super basic and could've been cleaned up, but I was hyped.
Also not a session, but I plan to skate every day that I can this year, which is looking like five+ days a week. I just don't want to get seriously injured, so I have to take calculated risks and be smart about what I'm trying, plan ahead a little, etc.
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sometimes you gotta correct grandma bro regulate these kooks
Had to move back to my home state for $$$, had a nightmare situation where some shit got fucked up with my only setup, couldn’t skate for a fucking month finally went out last night for a glorious parking lot sesh it felt amazing and my fucked up knees felt great after getting a month off, most time I’ve taken off in the last year was like 5 days one time but I pretty much skate 5-6 times a week minimum so getting some rest feels amazing, so happy to be back in skating
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I've been skating an indoor ramp by myself for the last 1.5 years, and only recently have been skating with friends and other skateboarders on a more regular basis. It feels good. Last session I did the best mini-ramp line I've ever done, which was still super basic and could've been cleaned up, but I was hyped.
Also not a session, but I plan to skate every day that I can this year, which is looking like five+ days a week. I just don't want to get seriously injured, so I have to take calculated risks and be smart about what I'm trying, plan ahead a little, etc.
I mostly skate alone as well, but I'm starting to meet more people at my local, to the point where I can show up at any given time and have some people to skate with. Nothing beats having a session with 5+ people all feeding off each others energy.
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FS 5050ed a ledge I thought was too tall for me. Then I got a BS 5050 on a curb that I couldn’t do them on last time I tried. Almost got heelflips today…a trick I would love to add to my bag at 47 years old.
Then came home and pulled out the cruiser. Ollied a bunch of manhole covers. Good day to be a skateboarder.
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landed primo on a kickflip which i haven't done in idk how long, maybe 13 years???
busted the fuck outta my elbow
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Getting into crooks with a proper floaty ollie is a hell of a good feeling, to float for a bit and bone the nose down... it makes me think of how heavenly proper nose blunts must feel.
Just another yard flat bar session, for whatever reason it seemed sketchy to try slappy'ish crooks like I do on ledges.
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I had a nice session today on my usual parking lot that was empty except for one car that was moving very slowly in the middle of the place. I waited a minute for it to pass but instead it came to a halt. was getting slightly annoyed thought well if he don't move I'll just keep on riding and rolled towards the car and miraculously popped a flawless fakie heel in front of the car, two youngish dudes looking at me. I then moved on and (miraculously) popped a nice fakie kickflip behind the car. That's when I saw it was a driving teacher and the dude at the wheel was trying to learn how to park on the empty parking lot but was probably distracted by my skating. Anyway, eventually he managed to move into a parking bay.
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Hit the old man session at my local. First time skating since November (yikes)
Warmed up on the mini ramp, and decided the euro gap was my object of desire. Got ollie, front 180, back 180. Tried a back big spin for over an hour and caught a few but couldn't spin it around and stay on.
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took a break from trying flatbar crooks and maybe figured out for good how to lock crooks on ledges, needs further testing, it started to rain
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Saw this dude skating the neighborhood yesterday but I was already drinking.
Saw him today when I was skating to take a pic of this graffiti by the bar and told myself id say whats up when I came back
ended up seshing a little bump and mini curb kicker thing for an hour. We were both about at the same level of "I haven't skated in awhile bro"
I am loving this 14 inch wheelbase and ventures for street.
we tried to boardslide this parking block setup but it was too crusty
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so stoked to skate with someone randomly not at a park or organized.
first long sun day of the year.
Feelsgoodman
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Got to the curb spot and saw some people skating a box then realized it was half the Zero team with Chris Cole, Dane Burman, Adam Arunski and a bunch of other Am types.
My friend kept driving and we went to the next spot
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I had a great two hour long session at the local curb plaza(popular parking lot) today. Lots of flip tricks were working out for me, even the ones I rarely land anymore. I had also spent an hour and a half in the gym doing leg exercises and ripping the stair climber beforehand, so it was a surprise that I was able to skate the way I did
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Feeling under the weather with bad allergies and a throat canker soar (fuckin sucks), but it was dry enough and I had my 10” dead Dave with big softy’s on it. Did a few slappies and then went to another curb spot where I was having a rough time doing Slappy feebles cause the wheels were too soft, eventually got it and the screech of the wheels was so satisfying. Session before that I landed a fs flip first try after failing a kickflip, second sesh that’s happened. I was stoked cause I suck and my fs flips are really duxking unorthodox. My homie describes them as “chaotic”.
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I am having a cold for 6 weeks now. Physically und mentally I don't feel that good. Wasn't really a session but sunday I took my cruiser and went bombing some (mellow) hills, ollie ing up and down curbs, over manhole covers and just pushing my ass off.
The best 2 hours I had in the last few weeks. I was totally exhausted after that and fell asleep on my couch.
Sitting at my doctor now and they did a lotta tests. Pee in a cup, steal my blood, cables on my heart and all that shit.
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I had a session last Sunday and I meet the locals after a couple months. They asked me about my son since they weren't interested on me :P I was doing some heelflips, FS halfcab heelflip, manual shove it out... I didn't slam or anything but the next day my left knee was purple... and still is.
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I found a new pain of being old. Not falling when you should just tuck and roll. Didn't fall yesterday but caught myself weird on some bails and pulled my back a lil
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I found a new pain of being old. Not falling when you should just tuck and roll. Didn't fall yesterday but caught myself weird on some bails and pulled my back a lil
honestly underrated advice. A couple months ago I reluctantly skated an indoor park and buckled my knee trying to save myself from slipping on a way too slick bank. Would have been way better to just take the slam.
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I got dinner done at a decent time so I ate and found a random flatground spot up the road. I used the white painted stripe as a waypoint to practice my tricks. I'm finally getting decent bs 180's and landed a couple of kickflips over the stripe before I left. Felt good especially with the weather being cooler than usual.
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Damn, sorry Boomer. Mine was good, best fs feeble and fs rock done in a while. Working my way up to fs slashers to fakie again, miss that trick a lot. Last one was around 2002.
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Randomly found my fakie bigflips somewhere in the bottom of the bag, hadn't done them for a couple years at least.
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thought i figured out regular inward heels for a sec. after a solid 45 minutes of trying them I realized I had not figured them out.
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It's beautiful spring weather. I write in the group chat if anybody wants to go skate. The homie who moved to a different town is down. Just as I'm about to take off, it lightly starts to snow. I call the homie to cancel. 20 minutes later or so everything is dry. I've got a store in center I need to pass by, so I bring my board, thinking I might get some skating done anyway. On my way down town, light snow starts again. I get to the store and spent some time swapping a the present I gave my mom for her birthday. As I exit the store, it's dry again. I go to the skatepark, there's a scooter kid there, who always talks a lot. Today's no different. A few minutes later, you guessed, it's starts snowing again. All I get is a few figure-8 carving the corners of the park.. then I head home.
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it was windy and some spray rain was coming into our local park under a bridge. but i managed to land a couple of nollie backside lipslides on the flatbar, a trick that i have never ever tried before. quite scary at first but once you figure out how to get on the rail safely, that you have to nollie straight first and then turn over the rail, the trick seems way less scary.
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I've been getting allergy related migraines for the past week and it ended my session way too early. Did a few shuvs and 180's but had to cut it short since my head was throbbing.
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I had a celebratory session because I restarted to skate exactly 3 years ago on 15 March 2020 after 20 years hiatus. Stoked and happy that I am still at it and have made good progress to think 3 years ago I didn't even know if I would still be able to ollie up a curb.
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I had a celebratory session because I restarted to skate exactly 3 years ago on 15 March 2020 after 20 years hiatus. Stoked and happy that I am still at it and have made good progress to think 3 years ago I didn't even know if I would still be able to ollie up a curb.
Awesome mate! I can relate to this. I started again May 2019, also after a 18 year hiatus. So I gonna celebrate 4 years back in the game and my 40th birthday in May.
My session today was kinda okish. I went to the indoor again because snow came back. Some new things in the mini today. Bs Feeble to fakie, Fs Disaster and I came close to FS Smiths. Took me way to long to BS 180 the euro gap but tre flipped it 1st try. Also worked on my manuals. Did a halfcab manual and worked on halfcab manual bs 180 out but no luck.
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Had a nice pre-work AM session at the usual local park 15~ minutes from my place.
Worked on some ledge basics to warm up, culminating with a crook shuv out which is a recent new learn.
This particular park is kind of tiny, but super fun for solo sessions. The park's central element is an a-frame in the center of the park that leads to a mellow 5-6 ft quarter with pool coping. Lots of fun lines with that set up - I usually end my session with a few lines there to get my simpler tricks more consistent. Today's line was kickflip the a-frame, feeble fakie the quarter, switch front 180 the a-frame.
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Went to my local after a shit day at work to get my mind off things. There were a shit ton of kids running around with scooters and hoverboards so I basically kept to myself in the street section and practiced some flatground for a bit. Got my regular shuvs and kickflips in (finally got my weight distribution right). While the kids were in the banks I decided to work on switch front shuvs since I hardly ever do them. After about 30 minutes I landed 2 good ones in a row and got them on my phone. Felt a little disoriented after doing a switch trick for so long so I decided to call it at that. Pretty good end to the day.
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I had a nice session, landed a kickflip, heelflip and fakie heel in a row and first try. They were not beautiful but good enough to move on to the ledge section. Got my ledge tricks quickly and in particular my first back 5-0 on this low-ish ledge I've been practicing for a while. To top it off I got a nice manny on a manny pad that was also a first for me. After 30 minutes I had achieved all my goals and headed back home, stoked.
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Yesterday I finally learned how to get out of slappy crooks. Landed a couple really good kick flips and a really nice fakie flip which i haven’t done a decent one in forever. Almost got a switch varial heel. And my nollie game was strong. Now it’s raining all day in the south and all I wanted to do was go get some more
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Bombed some “hills” and went to go skate my favororite jersey barrier but it was gone
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I tried some new tricks, they didn't work. But I'm pretty sure I'll do em today.
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Had been skating twice in 6 weeks of because of bad weather, being sick most of the time, and having sick kids and partner at home. I was really getting uncomfortable on the inside, grumpy on the outside as the days passed without a session. Fuck this winter for real!
But then I have been out for lunch sessions twice in the last two days at the local diy with the best homie. Landed some stuff I am happy with and just flowed around. Regaining that feeling of being comfortable on the board will never get old... might even go a third day in a row today. Not sure how my old feet will react but fuck it, need to make up for the time of the board this year.
Enjoy your weekend everyone, hope your all having great sessions.
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Got out skating a few times this week. Learned frontside flips the other day then varial flips today oddly enough. Never really thought to try that trick but it's fun and they look sort of okay I think. I can at least catch them with my front foot sometimes.
I should work on bs flips next time I go out and nut up to get that round bar 5050 finally...
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Got out skating a few times this week. Learned frontside flips the other day then varial flips today oddly enough. Never really thought to try that trick but it's fun and they look sort of okay I think. I can at least catch them with my front foot sometimes.
I should work on bs flips next time I go out and nut up to get that round bar 5050 finally...
Wow, that's quite an achievement! I had fs flips on lock in the 90s, they were my signature trick. I could even do them over pyramid or out of kickers. I haven't come close since my comeback, as a matter of fact it's one of the last tricks that I have not relearned (yet).
Anyway, got a great bank session today. Then I ollied a three stair. Crazy how high a three stair seems when you actually skate it. I want to kickflip it so badly but when I roll up it feels like El Toro... got a nice hillbomb on a winded path tho.
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Aimed for a deep and bent boardslide to get into a bs feeble first try, grinded a good portion of the rail too. It felt great so I tried a couple more times just to realize it was luck.
I didn't slam but some sketchy attempts screwed with my confidence on subsequent tries.
I'm able to hold crooks a lot better now, but exiting is still bad, half the time it just rolls off to the ground.
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Quick session yesterday but productive. Started working on getting rewind grinds back and nearly ready to commit to some fs slashers to fake.
Two send-it Steve's provided the in flight entertainment for the session...
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Woke up feeling some back tightness from weekend activities, but still tried to get in what I could at the local this morning.
Took a while to warm up and ended up mostly skating the ledge. Practiced front tails, got a few to regular after sliding most of them out to fakie. Ended up getting one in a line - tailslide to regular, pump fakie quarterpipe, fakie noseslide to fakie. Not the greatest sesh, but still reasonably "productive".
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Tried to get a mid-day session on Saturday around 1 PM but the sun was just way too harsh. Skated for about half an hour before throwing in the towel. It started getting cloudy around 5 PM so I decided to make my way to the park again. I don't know about you guys, but I really enjoy skating when its overcast out. I get insane madness when I'm skating when the sun is blaring down on me because I feel like it makes my board feel like cardboard. But anyways, I show up at the park and one of the older locals was there skating flatground. We always have good flatground sessions because we both have tricks that the other wishes they had. He helped me learn fakie hardflips and I ended up landing one of the best switch bs flips that I've ever done. Also helped him learn switch front 360s. Very productive and fulfilling session.
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Sunday morning, it was stormy and rained. Went to the Ikea parking lot with a homie. Then the sun came out and the ground got dry fast. So we skated outside. Got 3 clips from a fs 180 out of a bump over a small trash can. First real session after 5 weeks and it was nice to be out there again.
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I sized down overall, learned a couple tricks in the process. You should do it too.
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Today was the warmest day this year so far and I managed to squeeze a sesh between a meeting and a telco in the afternoon under the nice Spring sun. Got my first lipslide ever on a low flatbar. I‘ve been working on this for some time.
Also my deck is super used to the point it is disintegrating and razortailing on both ends (twin tail) but I do my most consistent skating ever on it so I dread the day when I will have to eventually retire it.
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Today was the warmest day this year so far and I managed to squeeze a sesh between a meeting and a telco in the afternoon under the nice Spring sun. Got my first lipslide ever on a low flatbar. I‘ve been working on this for some time.
Also my deck is super used to the point it is disintegrating and razortailing on both ends (twin tail) but I do my most consistent skating ever on it so I dread the day when I will have to eventually retire it.
Its always hard to but those goldilocks bloards down.
On the flip side, I set-up this Black Label 9" Egg/Football the other day, had a little session after work to break it in. I'd been riding the Crail Couch shape, and have found that I absolutely love the short wheel base (13.8 or .9) but getting back to an "average" WB has been good fun. Definitely pros and cons between the lengths.
As for maneuvers, I've been getting lil ~6" tailslides on my go-to QP, which I've never been able to slide before. Getting FS Ollies and airs a little higher. Got more consistent with transferring the "big spine", no-grab. Gives a little bit of a GT-floater kind of feeling.
I also seem to have lost BS 50s on the flatbar... I worked hard to be confident on those and now I'm back to pussy-footing it...
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Today was the warmest day this year so far and I managed to squeeze a sesh between a meeting and a telco in the afternoon under the nice Spring sun. Got my first lipslide ever on a low flatbar. I‘ve been working on this for some time.
Also my deck is super used to the point it is disintegrating and razortailing on both ends (twin tail) but I do my most consistent skating ever on it so I dread the day when I will have to eventually retire it.
Its always hard to but those goldilocks bloards down.
On the flip side, I set-up this Black Label 9" Egg/Football the other day, had a little session after work to break it in. I'd been riding the Crail Couch shape, and have found that I absolutely love the short wheel base (13.8 or .9) but getting back to an "average" WB has been good fun. Definitely pros and cons between the lengths.
As for maneuvers, I've been getting lil ~6" tailslides on my go-to QP, which I've never been able to slide before. Getting FS Ollies and airs a little higher. Got more consistent with transferring the "big spine", no-grab. Gives a little bit of a GT-floater kind of feeling.
I also seem to have lost BS 50s on the flatbar... I worked hard to be confident on those and now I'm back to pussy-footing it...
BS 50 on a flatbar? I already find fs 50s rather gnarly…
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Went to a park the other day and this guy kept trying to explain Rodney Mullen to people. I was friendly to him at first until he cornered me and explained at great length how he skated Tampa Pro but was disappointed at "all the rookies". This guy could barely even stand on a skateboard, so naturally he seemed visibly puzzled about how nobody was particularly impressed by his story, and instead there was a super awkward tension because it was obvious he was lying but nobody wanted to say it.
Then this old guy wandered in with a shaped Powell board. He tried about a trick and a half in the entire two hours he was there, then spent the rest of the time wandering around trying to explain to people how to skateboard. Eventually he teamed up with the Tampa guy and sanctioned off sections of the park to try and teach an unwilling toddler how to skate.
I also slammed pretty good on a bank to ledge.
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Today was the warmest day this year so far and I managed to squeeze a sesh between a meeting and a telco in the afternoon under the nice Spring sun. Got my first lipslide ever on a low flatbar. I‘ve been working on this for some time.
Also my deck is super used to the point it is disintegrating and razortailing on both ends (twin tail) but I do my most consistent skating ever on it so I dread the day when I will have to eventually retire it.
Awesome man, I remember we talked about that a couple of months ago. Good on you for persevering!
Went to a park the other day and this guy kept trying to explain Rodney Mullen to people. I was friendly to him at first until he cornered me and explained at great length how he skated Tampa Pro but was disappointed at "all the rookies". This guy could barely even stand on a skateboard, so naturally he seemed visibly puzzled about how nobody was particularly impressed by his story, and instead there was a super awkward tension because it was obvious he was lying but nobody wanted to say it.
Then this old guy wandered in with a shaped Powell board. He tried about a trick and a half in the entire two hours he was there, then spent the rest of the time wandering around trying to explain to people how to skateboard. Eventually he teamed up with the Tampa guy and sanctioned off sections of the park to try and teach an unwilling toddler how to skate.
I also slammed pretty good on a bank to ledge.
That would fit really well into the "reasons to cool-guy someone" thread in UWTB.
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Skated last night, landed four nollie 180 switch crook, was feeling pretty good, drank a few beers with the guys and had chicken and garlic butter noodles for dinner…wish everyday was like that
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Today was the warmest day this year so far and I managed to squeeze a sesh between a meeting and a telco in the afternoon under the nice Spring sun. Got my first lipslide ever on a low flatbar. I‘ve been working on this for some time.
Also my deck is super used to the point it is disintegrating and razortailing on both ends (twin tail) but I do my most consistent skating ever on it so I dread the day when I will have to eventually retire it.
Awesome man, I remember we talked about that a couple of months ago. Good on you for persevering!
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Went to a park the other day and this guy kept trying to explain Rodney Mullen to people. I was friendly to him at first until he cornered me and explained at great length how he skated Tampa Pro but was disappointed at "all the rookies". This guy could barely even stand on a skateboard, so naturally he seemed visibly puzzled about how nobody was particularly impressed by his story, and instead there was a super awkward tension because it was obvious he was lying but nobody wanted to say it.
Then this old guy wandered in with a shaped Powell board. He tried about a trick and a half in the entire two hours he was there, then spent the rest of the time wandering around trying to explain to people how to skateboard. Eventually he teamed up with the Tampa guy and sanctioned off sections of the park to try and teach an unwilling toddler how to skate.
I also slammed pretty good on a bank to ledge.
That would fit really well into the "reasons to cool-guy someone" thread in UWTB.
It's kind of a perfect case study for my idea of "cool-guying" because everyone was reasonably nice to him until he decided to lie to a bunch of strangers and sorta force us to acknowledge that he was really bad at skateboarding.
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^Totally. Not to derail this thread, but some pal has this great signature about how the vast majority of "cool-guyed" people bring it onto themselves. Doesn't sound as funny paraphrased, the original is dead-on though. IMO "cool-guying" is a misnomer in most cases because it's just avoiding to hang out with or talk to someone with subpar social skills. You don't need to be cool to do that.
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Me. Too many responsibilities and last minute sidegigs have sucked up any skate time as of late.
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Today was the warmest day this year so far and I managed to squeeze a sesh between a meeting and a telco in the afternoon under the nice Spring sun. Got my first lipslide ever on a low flatbar. I‘ve been working on this for some time.
Also my deck is super used to the point it is disintegrating and razortailing on both ends (twin tail) but I do my most consistent skating ever on it so I dread the day when I will have to eventually retire it.
Awesome man, I remember we talked about that a couple of months ago. Good on you for persevering!
You‘ve got a good memory my friend and yes, ever since you posted that clip of you lipsliding that bar I wanted to learn it. Hopefully I‘ll be able to get them more consistent, but thanks for the inspiration.
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Went downtown alone and bumped into some people I kinda know. Had a good time skating cuz the weather is finnaly good for skating outside (no snow on the ground).
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Me. Too many responsibilities and last minute sidegigs have sucked up any skate time as of late.
Bros same boat. I miss it so bad. I’ve had a lot of family shit to do on weekends visiting my family or my wife’s not to mention I got work and a one year old and a house full of animals. My body feels really good though lately so Im excited for my next session no matter how long or short it is.
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Me. Too many responsibilities and last minute sidegigs have sucked up any skate time as of late.
Bros same boat. I miss it so bad. I’ve had a lot of family shit to do on weekends visiting my family or my wife’s not to mention I got work and a one year old and a house full of animals. My body feels really good though lately so Im excited for my next session no matter how long or short it is.
There is something special about those sessions that go down after all that anticipation and excitement builds up. It’ll be worth the wait, trust me.
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I went out early and skated from 8 am to around 9, a new experience for me but it‘s nice. However, when I was warmed up and started working on a new trick, a dude I know came up and talked to me, and talked, and talked so that by the time he was done my legs were cold and I had to end the session. Dude is nice but I hate when that happens.
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I was friendly to him at first until he cornered me and explained at great length how he skated Tampa Pro but was disappointed at "all the rookies". This guy could barely even stand on a skateboard, so naturally he seemed visibly puzzled about how nobody was particularly impressed by his story, and instead there was a super awkward tension because it was obvious he was lying but nobody wanted to say it.
Do this type of people really exist? How is this possible? :o I mean, it’s not a lie like “Sorry I worked the whole day and I’m tired”. It’s more like a “I did a 1080 after Tony Hawk landed his first 900 but nobody filmed it” lie.
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I was friendly to him at first until he cornered me and explained at great length how he skated Tampa Pro but was disappointed at "all the rookies". This guy could barely even stand on a skateboard, so naturally he seemed visibly puzzled about how nobody was particularly impressed by his story, and instead there was a super awkward tension because it was obvious he was lying but nobody wanted to say it.
Do this type of people really exist? How is this possible? :o I mean, it’s not a lie like “Sorry I worked the whole day and I’m tired”. It’s more like a “I did a 1080 after Tony Hawk landed his first 900 but nobody filmed it” lie.
It's super bizarre and it's happened to me a few times. It's almost as if they don't realize that we're in the real world and we can see them.
Last summer I was skating the park with a buddy and this guy who seemed like a beginner came up and started talking to us. He seemed really nice and we were all having a decent conversation until he suddenly drops how he was "about to get on Zero but got hurt before the big video dropped". It's honestly a bummer because in a weird way it kinda makes you feel like a sucker for just trying to be nice to someone. It wouldn't matter how good they are at skating, but they sorta make it matter.
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Fuck fs rail tricks other than board
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Fuck fs rail tricks other than board
Hard agree. I ain't doin rails frontside. I'm ecstatic if I make a crooked or back 50. No need for the other side...
sry about your finger
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They said it's likely that I'll need surgery and have wires inserted, which is annoying, recovery time blah blah, at least it's free here
And I'll try to respect rails more from now on even if they're tiny
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They said it's likely that I'll need surgery and have wires inserted, which is annoying, recovery time blah blah, at least it's free here
And I'll try to respect rails more from now on even if they're tiny
I hope it's not so bad! Have a fast recover!
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im getting closer and closer to figuring out tre flips again, i did about 5 shitty ones and 2 sessions before that i did around 5 shitty ones
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They said it's likely that I'll need surgery and have wires inserted, which is annoying, recovery time blah blah, at least it's free here
And I'll try to respect rails more from now on even if they're tiny
I hope it's not so bad! Have a fast recover!
Thanks! I'm glad it wasn't like my wrist or even other fingers
im getting closer and closer to figuring out tre flips again, i did about 5 shitty ones and 2 sessions before that i did around 5 shitty ones
Yo that's awesome, I hope you get them fully back soon.
I could treflip everytime but only on a board with a broken nose I had a few years ago, I miss them
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Me. Too many responsibilities and last minute sidegigs have sucked up any skate time as of late.
Bros same boat. I miss it so bad. I’ve had a lot of family shit to do on weekends visiting my family or my wife’s not to mention I got work and a one year old and a house full of animals. My body feels really good though lately so Im excited for my next session no matter how long or short it is.
There is something special about those sessions that go down after all that anticipation and excitement builds up. It’ll be worth the wait, trust me.
Bros I had a great session this morning. Did the same tricks I always do but man did it feel great. First try 360 flip. Got to skate with some friends. Life is good
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New deck was messing with me a bit. There were a whole lot of scooter babies and their corresponding parents. Pretty uneventful overall, but another day is another day and I can't complain about that!
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skated with the homie
practiced flat & some tranny
got my tre's back and worked on getting my fakie front bigs to not be pivoted
tried blunt fakie for a hot second but couldnt land it
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First day of summer time today in Berlin. Sadly, the ground was wet. But most of the homies made it out today to the Ikea parking lot. It was great.
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I put in an actual 9-5 shift on my board today between two different parks and three different street spots. The entertainment industry is coming to a grinding halt because of a possible writers strike, so it looks like I’ll have a lot more skate time over the next few months
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They said it's likely that I'll need surgery and have wires inserted, which is annoying, recovery time blah blah, at least it's free here
And I'll try to respect rails more from now on even if they're tiny
I hope it's not so bad! Have a fast recover!
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im getting closer and closer to figuring out tre flips again, i did about 5 shitty ones and 2 sessions before that i did around 5 shitty ones
I could treflip everytime but only on a board with a broken nose I had a few years ago, I miss them
thanks homie, much appreciated
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I'm slowly getting back into skating regulaly and I've now become a 'Ollie with the whole side of your foot' guy with Ollie holes right up in the mid shoe \ ankle. Could be the huge nose on hockey boards. Don't mind it, at least my Ollie's ate super square ATM
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Killer. Got a bit done and closer to committing to a fs rewind grind on a tight transition. Some total ripper rocked up and started blasting Alan Peterson style bs ollies (among other things) in the big bowl too, unreal!
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First small session after my meniscus surgery. Totally stiff. Couldn’t do more than a couple of Ollies, slappies and boardslides. FS Slasher in a steep quarterpipe nearly smoked me.
Anyways - really grateful for being on the board again
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First small session after my meniscus surgery. Totally stiff. Couldn’t do more than a couple of Ollies, slappies and boardslides. FS Slasher in a steep quarterpipe nearly smoked me.
Anyways - really grateful for being on the board again
The kingpin blues?
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First small session after my meniscus surgery. Totally stiff. Couldn’t do more than a couple of Ollies, slappies and boardslides. FS Slasher in a steep quarterpipe nearly smoked me.
Anyways - really grateful for being on the board again
Nope. Leaned too much into it and ended up in a fs 50 grind while still being inside the ramp. Basically just a really long fs slasher, but I wasn’t expected it and just barely managed to avoid slipping out
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had fun skating Hamilton Fish park i did nollie bs 180 and kickflip off the top of the pyramid thing and then a bs tail on the tiny curb
why is it that bs tails are astronomically easier to get into/hold on curbs?? when taken to a foot tall ledge they become exponentially more difficult to control and do for me.
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Skated with the homies at a b-ball court with an up ledge I’d never been to. Wind was killing the session but we stuck it out and everyone got something.
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Woke up early for my usual Sunday session - traffic is non-existent before 8 am and it's nice to watch the sun rise while I'm drinking my coffee.
I went to one of the older local parks that has some nice ledges that always slide/grind like butter. I was thinking of trying a tailslide variation on a flat ledge, but landed a nicely balanced fakie nosegrind second try while warming up and decided that it was the morning to try and get that same trick on the upledge.
Took me a little under an hour, but got one I was stoked on. Spent the rest of the session having a little mini-ramp sesh to squeeze out the rest of the juice. Got a chicken tender sub afterwards to cap it off.
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I went to the university on sunday with the local teens. There was no one else so we skated the whole afternoon. It was a nice session but at one point i stuck for more than an hour battling a line that was supposed to finish with fs ollie to fakie nose manual. I just couldn't make it good and clean, but will definitely come back for another round.
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I got out for a sesh and got all my tricks in 30 mins, including a two kickflip (down and up a curb) plus heelflip line first try. I am super comfortable on my board and shoes but as always, both are inevitably reaching the end of their lifecycle simultaneously which means I'll have to break in a new board and new shoes at the same time which will completely throw of my whole skating and I'll be back at case 1. :'(
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I put in an actual 9-5 shift on my board today between two different parks and three different street spots. The entertainment industry is coming to a grinding halt because of a possible writers strike, so it looks like I’ll have a lot more skate time over the next few months
What's happening and why are the writers likely going on strike? Is there a bigger picture reason as to why that seems to be imminent?
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last time I skated was last Tuesday, 6 days ago. skated for about an hour or two with my friend Danny at the local park. filmed him do a heelflip rock to fakie, actually looks really sick. I didn’t do anything crazy, but I remember fucking around and almost doing a fakie varial heel for the first time. came home, felt really shifty that night, found out I had Covid the next day, girlfriend left and moved out of my place. been in the hospital since last night. 😀 so weak and shitty still, couldn’t imagine stepping on a board! ❤️
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I had spinal fusion/rod implant surgery a couple of years ago, and had been back on board for nearly a year... my equilibrium and the time it takes my head to tell my feet to do something has been a little off since then, but I'd been curb skating, playing on my little portable rail, and skating some ramp.
Anyways, about 3 months ago I was goofing on my rail and decided to go jump down a little 5 set here in town... it's short, the landing is slightly downhill, and it's always been a warmup spot. I probably should have started with a 3 set because on the very last fall in this clip I caught a tibia plateau fracture and they had to put a plate and 8 pins under my knee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isHo7Qhtd9Q
Did the crutches and the cane, right now I'm waiting for a couple of millimeters of bone growth so I can go roll around some more.
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last time I skated was last Tuesday, 6 days ago. skated for about an hour or two with my friend Danny at the local park. filmed him do a heelflip rock to fakie, actually looks really sick. I didn’t do anything crazy, but I remember fucking around and almost doing a fakie varial heel for the first time. came home, felt really shifty that night, found out I had Covid the next day, girlfriend left and moved out of my place. been in the hospital since last night. 😀 so weak and shitty still, couldn’t imagine stepping on a board! ❤️
Man what?! Why do you have to stay in the hospital for Covid? I hope it isn't something serious and you can skate again soon.
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last time I skated was last Tuesday, 6 days ago. skated for about an hour or two with my friend Danny at the local park. filmed him do a heelflip rock to fakie, actually looks really sick. I didn’t do anything crazy, but I remember fucking around and almost doing a fakie varial heel for the first time. came home, felt really shifty that night, found out I had Covid the next day, girlfriend left and moved out of my place. been in the hospital since last night. 😀 so weak and shitty still, couldn’t imagine stepping on a board! ❤️
Man what?! Why do you have to stay in the hospital for Covid? I hope it isn't something serious and you can skate again soon.
Normally most cases of Covid don’t need to be treated with hospital care. but because I live alone, I didn’t have anyone physically able (or who was willing to) come over and check on me. so for the first 48-52ish hours of having it, I was only awake maybe 10 hours. just forgot to drink water when I woke up, and before I went back to sleep. so I went back, and they kept me the remainder because I was so dehydrated.
I’m sure I’ll be skating by next week. it’s just I started recently even having thoughts of skating again, and the thought of pushing on one rn makes me sick. thank you for the kind words though. it’s so weird how it affected some of my mental capacity though. I tried to drive earlier and it felt extremely dangerous.
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last time I skated was last Tuesday, 6 days ago. skated for about an hour or two with my friend Danny at the local park. filmed him do a heelflip rock to fakie, actually looks really sick. I didn’t do anything crazy, but I remember fucking around and almost doing a fakie varial heel for the first time. came home, felt really shifty that night, found out I had Covid the next day, girlfriend left and moved out of my place. been in the hospital since last night. 😀 so weak and shitty still, couldn’t imagine stepping on a board! ❤️
Man what?! Why do you have to stay in the hospital for Covid? I hope it isn't something serious and you can skate again soon.
Normally most cases of Covid don’t need to be treated with hospital care. but because I live alone, I didn’t have anyone physically able (or who was willing to) come over and check on me. so for the first 48-52ish hours of having it, I was only awake maybe 10 hours. just forgot to drink water when I woke up, and before I went back to sleep. so I went back, and they kept me the remainder because I was so dehydrated.
I’m sure I’ll be skating by next week. it’s just I started recently even having thoughts of skating again, and the thought of pushing on one rn makes me sick. thank you for the kind words though. it’s so weird how it affected some of my mental capacity though. I tried to drive earlier and it felt extremely dangerous.
Oh man.. but I understand why you haven't drank that much during that time. Been there too. But it will get better soon. I hope you have access to candy, that could help a bit with hydration and your blood sugar. Keep the PMA.
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some white dude with dreads, a big board, small wheels & really noise bearings kept on getting in the way doing bert slides and stupid transition tricks while me and the homie were dicking around on a random quarter. he would start really fast & far away but would lose all his speed by the time he actually hit the quarter bc of his bearings & small wheels. it was a really odd sight
he also kept on laughing out really loud after he fucked up any (pretty much every) trick, really weird dude
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Sat on my knee last week coming down from a bail, but it didn’t tweak or anything, I assumed I just overextended it. Didn’t skate for like a week. Then this last weekend me and my gf were celebrating our anniversary. We went to the bay and got a room and ate hella food. I went to a shop and picked up the new chandler there board with the short wheelbase. Rolled around a little and felt a little off. Anyway ended up at rockridge and skated for about an hour. Got some Slappy bs 5-0s, Slappy bs 5-0 to bs 180, and a feeble to front shove. I wanted to get some clips before calling it, got a feeble and almost a feeble front shove on film. Did a feeble board to hurricane and when I got into hurricane, my knee came out of socket for a quick second (a recurring problem). I shouldn’t have even been skating, I just wanted to slap the ridge so bad. Lesson learned, taking some time off and gonna focus on strengthening. Listen to your body, folks!
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I put in an actual 9-5 shift on my board today between two different parks and three different street spots. The entertainment industry is coming to a grinding halt because of a possible writers strike, so it looks like I’ll have a lot more skate time over the next few months
What's happening and why are the writers likely going on strike? Is there a bigger picture reason as to why that seems to be imminent?
@Wienerboy over streaming and residuals. Also regulating the use of AI
Skated for a couple hours this morning with some buddies. My back is hurting a little bit so I’m probably gonna take it easy for a few days. I’m going on a skate trip to Hawaii in two weeks and I want to be in good skate condition
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Got too stoned, went to a crowded skate park and snaked many people on accident. Despite that, tricks felt pretty good and it was a really fun session. My board and shoes are at a perfectly equal broken in stage
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some white dude with dreads, a big board, small wheels & really noise bearings kept on getting in the way doing bert slides and stupid transition tricks while me and the homie were dicking around on a random quarter. he would start really fast & far away but would lose all his speed by the time he actually hit the quarter bc of his bearings & small wheels. it was a really odd sight
he also kept on laughing out really loud after he fucked up any (pretty much every) trick, really weird dude
Cringeworthy
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I landed a very shitty kickflip after about 9 months of trying.
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I landed a very shitty kickflip after about 9 months of trying.
congrats!
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some white dude with dreads, a big board, small wheels & really noise bearings kept on getting in the way doing bert slides and stupid transition tricks while me and the homie were dicking around on a random quarter. he would start really fast & far away but would lose all his speed by the time he actually hit the quarter bc of his bearings & small wheels. it was a really odd sight
he also kept on laughing out really loud after he fucked up any (pretty much every) trick, really weird dude
sounds like me when I sesh on psychs
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I went to echo park skatepark yesterday. I didn't skate at all....I just sat and listen to the locals talk about what beer they were gonna get. Sometimes lurking is more entertaining than actually skating.
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Got my first front crook today. Super stoked even though it was sketchy ;D
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moved twenty minutes away and have a new local park. also haven’t skated in three months. felt stiff as shit, could barely do any of my warm up tricks, even forgot how to slap put, but towards the end I almost threw a front smith shuv out and got a front sugarcane on transition so fuck it, I’ll take it. now I’m sore as absolute shit and reading a bunch of shit about yoga and eating healthy to try and mitigate it next time
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practiced tre's & extending my foot out when doing kickflips - i developed a bad habit of doing a quick and short flick instead of a nice extended one
tried to learn impossibles, but them shits keep flipping on me. tried backside flips for a while but it was too windy
i recently picked up mini ramp skating & was really stoked to get a nice 5 trick line (drop into a decently long 5050, 5-0 stall, rock fakie, fakie rock, and then fs disaster). even though it was really simple i was happy to get it on a 5 ft mini
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practiced tre's & extending my foot out when doing kickflips - i and developed a bad habit of doing a quick and short flick instead of a nice extended one
tried to learn impossibles, but them shits keep flipping on me. tried backside flips for a while but it was too windy
i recently picked up mini ramp skating & was really stoked to get a nice 5 trick line (drop into a decently long 5050, 5-0 stall, rock fakie, fakie rock, and then fs disaster). even though it was really simple i was happy to get it on a 5 ft mini
Dude I have this problem too. I find aiming with your heel sometimes helps get that leg out there, but i still don’t have the flick I want. If you make any breakthroughs pls post
Congrats on the mini line!
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Overshot a big park jump on my snowskate and just like jarred myself when I stomped it. Riding out of it, my lower back collapsed, and I keeled over before I could come into the rail line.
Ski patrol took me away in the sled and I was worried I broke my back so went to the ER. No breaks, just a little muscle strain like if I lifted a box wrong.
Doctor says no skating for 30 days, but I'm like 10 days in and barely any pain... just jonesing so hard to ride.
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I went to the diy to practice rolling into bigger stuff and everything was going great until I tried pumping out of this roll-in thing (? like a hump leading out of a bowl) and somehow got pitched and landed on my hands and face
it actually wasn't that painful but the sky looked purple for a minute and now I have this cute busted lip and drool thing going on
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Went to a recently built park about 15 minutes from my house. My board and shoes were both on their last leg but I made the best of it. I was able to learn switch back 50-50s and switch back tails on a curb high ledge. I was feeling pretty good so I started trying different tricks on the rainbow rail. I was able to 50-50 it first try so I decided to try a feeble and got stuck a 1/4 of the way up and flew forward over the rest of the rail. Luckily I was able to put my wrists down and catch myself to roll but ended up slamming the side of my right knee on the ground. This was on Monday and I'm still feeling it.
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Weather's been nice recently so me and the homies have been having a nightly session recently. Lost pretty much everything but it is what it is. Busted a fat tre flip the other night and that may be the only trick i've landed since last August.
Today's session though, went in for a crook on a ledge at uni, got pitched and rolled my ankle. Was wearing my accels so it could have been worse but it could have been better. Currently typing this out with ice on my ankle.
Last time I did this I had a green top ply, this time I've had a green top, so I'm convinced that the red top curse only affects me on green tops.
Dunno, I feel like it's kind of affecting me- this wandering self doubt and wonder if I should quit skating. I'm still young, so probably not and it's fun as fuck. Then again I remember someone telling me to quit music because I'm "too old" after I got into Uni for music. Fuck's sake dude, I'm 19. I can't even drink in most countries yet.
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Weather's been nice recently so me and the homies have been having a nightly session recently. Lost pretty much everything but it is what it is. Busted a fat tre flip the other night and that may be the only trick i've landed since last August.
Today's session though, went in for a crook on a ledge at uni, got pitched and rolled my ankle. Was wearing my accels so it could have been worse but it could have been better. Currently typing this out with ice on my ankle.
Last time I did this I had a green top ply, this time I've had a green top, so I'm convinced that the red top curse only affects me on green tops.
Dunno, I feel like it's kind of affecting me- this wandering self doubt and wonder if I should quit skating. I'm still young, so probably not and it's fun as fuck. Then again I remember someone telling me to quit music because I'm "too old" after I got into Uni for music. Fuck's sake dude, I'm 19. I can't even drink in most countries yet.
Injuries are a part of skating. And most other moving activities too I think. But ask yourself this question.
Do you have fun skating and does it bring you joy?
Then don't quit.
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Weather's been nice recently so me and the homies have been having a nightly session recently. Lost pretty much everything but it is what it is. Busted a fat tre flip the other night and that may be the only trick i've landed since last August.
Today's session though, went in for a crook on a ledge at uni, got pitched and rolled my ankle. Was wearing my accels so it could have been worse but it could have been better. Currently typing this out with ice on my ankle.
Last time I did this I had a green top ply, this time I've had a green top, so I'm convinced that the red top curse only affects me on green tops.
Dunno, I feel like it's kind of affecting me- this wandering self doubt and wonder if I should quit skating. I'm still young, so probably not and it's fun as fuck. Then again I remember someone telling me to quit music because I'm "too old" after I got into Uni for music. Fuck's sake dude, I'm 19. I can't even drink in most countries yet.
Injuries are a part of skating. And most other moving activities too I think. But ask yourself this question.
Do you have fun skating and does it bring you joy?
Then don't quit.
You're right man. I think I'm overthinking/overdramatizing shit.
Hope your next sesh is good man
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Weather's been nice recently so me and the homies have been having a nightly session recently. Lost pretty much everything but it is what it is. Busted a fat tre flip the other night and that may be the only trick i've landed since last August.
Today's session though, went in for a crook on a ledge at uni, got pitched and rolled my ankle. Was wearing my accels so it could have been worse but it could have been better. Currently typing this out with ice on my ankle.
Last time I did this I had a green top ply, this time I've had a green top, so I'm convinced that the red top curse only affects me on green tops.
Dunno, I feel like it's kind of affecting me- this wandering self doubt and wonder if I should quit skating. I'm still young, so probably not and it's fun as fuck. Then again I remember someone telling me to quit music because I'm "too old" after I got into Uni for music. Fuck's sake dude, I'm 19. I can't even drink in most countries yet.
Most people stop doing regular physical activity right around your age and slowly start becoming fat lazy adults. A lot of the people who are telling you to quit are probably in that category.
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Find what you love and ride that shit to shore. Dont listen to bitter losers
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My surgery was scheduled for the 11th, it's the downside of free treatment here, and holy shit I know I'm not quitting skateboarding over a broken finger but I had no idea a small injury could be this problematic, this shit will for sure impact how I skate from now on at the very least.
I'm usually quite fearless all things considered, sometimes I'll fuck up my ollie before a sketchy trick but I'll keep trying till it works, I wasn't joking when I said I wanted to try cab board a while back and I couldn't wait to try shit like blunts and expand my bag, but not anymore.
One session I had a few years ago that I still remember is skating to deftones alone at night doing lines of backside flip, half cab flip n kickflip over and over. Guess I don't need fs crook on rails.
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I went out to the local Team Pain park this Sunday as is the typical move every couple of weekends.
I spent Thursday and Friday morning battling a ledge line before work, so I could tell I was coming into the session a little beat up. Nothing was really working on the manny pad or ledge, just felt kind of lethargic and "off".
Decided to switch gears and try a switch shuv up the euro gap. The gap itself is a little longer than a deck, and you have to aggressively pump a few of the park elements to get the speed to clear it. Slammed on my bad hip one time, but ended up stomping it a few tries after. I love switch shuvs and have just recently started trying them on more challenging obstacles - it's a simple but fun trick.
I am feeling pretty beat up today. I think my body is telling me to take a few days off.
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So I didn't end up resting too much - figures ::)
Took yesterday off to give my feet a break, but had the itch to re-film the switch shove-it up the euro gap at the park. Woke up just before 7 am this morning with a burst of energy, so I knew it was there.
Ended up getting a few clips of the switch shove-it again, including two that were right on par with my standards. Always feels good to get something I'm stoked on before sitting at work all day.
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I love switch shuvs
been one of my faves lately, been trying to finally get more coordination and power out of my switch foot and I've been doing lots of switch shoves.
my last session was helping/watching my 9 y/o nephew butt board during his first trip to the skate park. It was cool because it was his idea to go to the skate park and he had a lot of fun so maybe he'll actually get into it
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Can't say I fully learned it, but I landed my first bluntslide the other day. The spot was this short, noping QP that sits on top of a bank, shaped like a half-volcano.
So charge up the bank, skid into the blunt on top of the quarter, (BS), slide 2-3 feet, pop-in forward on the other side of the volcano.
I stuck one w/in 10 tries, and got another on camera w/in another 10-15 tries. Haven't learned anything that far outside the bag in a while, I'm still pretty stoked on that.
Wax actually helped me for once!
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been one of my faves lately, been trying to finally get more coordination and power out of my switch foot and I've been doing lots of switch shoves.
my last session was helping/watching my 9 y/o nephew butt board during his first trip to the skate park. It was cool because it was his idea to go to the skate park and he had a lot of fun so maybe he'll actually get into it
Switch shoves are the best! I am pretty switch-deficient and trying to address it, but I am feeling a lot more springy on my switch (left) foot since I've been trying them. Sounds like you are noticing it too.
Your nephew sounds a lot like I was when I was his age! I'm sure if he keeps having fun with it he will keep up the stoke ;D
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Kinda bad.. I just wanted to have a nice chill early sesh but, it became a battle. The sun was out but it's ass cold. 5 degree celcius, windy. It took me 20 minutes to land a fuckin fakie varial flip, took a nasty slam on my elbow, chipped the nose of my board pretty, pretty bad and had some kind of rage spiral because of not landing shit.
Ah and I murdered my shoes too. I think I need a break.
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Kinda bad.. I just wanted to have a nice chill early sesh but, it became a battle. The sun was out but it's ass cold. 5 degree celcius, windy. It took me 20 minutes to land a fuckin fakie varial flip, took a nasty slam on my elbow, chipped the nose of my board pretty, pretty bad and had some kind of rage spiral because of not landing shit.
Ah and I murdered my shoes too. I think I need a break.
Your avatar image makes this story sound very very sad... sorry about your gear. Hate those days where nothing wants to work
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Kinda bad.. I just wanted to have a nice chill early sesh but, it became a battle. The sun was out but it's ass cold. 5 degree celcius, windy. It took me 20 minutes to land a fuckin fakie varial flip, took a nasty slam on my elbow, chipped the nose of my board pretty, pretty bad and had some kind of rage spiral because of not landing shit.
Ah and I murdered my shoes too. I think I need a break.
Your avatar image makes this story sound very very sad... sorry about your gear. Hate those days where nothing wants to work
Yea I just had a bad day.. Today was way better. I hit the bigger ramp a few minutes away and told myself, no fliptrick madness, just a chill ramp sesh.
It's the biggest ramp around so I was a bit stiff and it took a while to get used to but after hitting some CBD drops and watching the young guns learning boardslides down a big handrail my mood was pretty mellow. Had a good sesh overall. Overcome the fear and got a few proper 50s and bs feebles. A more sketchy bs 5-0, some proper rock n rolls and got I got used to the height real quick. Next time I wanna work on some more stuff but for now I'm really satisfied.
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Kinda bad.. I just wanted to have a nice chill early sesh but, it became a battle. The sun was out but it's ass cold. 5 degree celcius, windy. It took me 20 minutes to land a fuckin fakie varial flip, took a nasty slam on my elbow, chipped the nose of my board pretty, pretty bad and had some kind of rage spiral because of not landing shit.
Ah and I murdered my shoes too. I think I need a break.
Your avatar image makes this story sound very very sad... sorry about your gear. Hate those days where nothing wants to work
It's the biggest ramp around so I was a bit stiff and it took a while to get used to but after hitting some CBD drops and watching the young guns learning boardslides down a big handrail my mood was pretty mellow. Had a good sesh overall. Overcome the fear and got a few proper 50s and bs feebles. A more sketchy bs 5-0, some proper rock n rolls and got I got used to the height real quick. Next time I wanna work on some more stuff but for now I'm really satisfied.
Getting past that fear is one of the coolest feelings. Tangential story, I've only skated one actual halfpipe, and the thing scared the shit out of me. It was dead of winter in some warehouse. 9ft tall with these really long, wide transitions. I couldn't even get to axle stall, only scratchers. Still, even attempting to get some felt wild, almost like dropping in for the first time again.
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The overall weather is starting to ease up here so our local crew is starting to hang out and revisit the parks around town again (the only indoor park turned into a youth center with obliviously strict rules made by some chemists and biologists over the winter so we were especially excited for the outdoor season to begin). The weather was windy and cloudy but we didn't let that bother us and we seshed the miniramp for the whole afternoon. Although I despise Rhino ramps parks with my whole heart, the miniramp they made turned out superb.
The session went went really well: everyone got some new tricks in the bag, the cheers could be heard all around the mechanics shops around the park. A small nuisance was the bird poop that resided on one of the halfpipes but we made do.
Before we took off on the journey to the store for a small supper three little rippers also pulled up to the park so we exchanged some hellos. I got two smoothies and some sweets that would roughly translate to "jamballs". The jamballs were undoubtedly the gnarliest part of the day, 3-pack of small pies filled with apple jam- I ate two and shared one with a friend.
We had to catch the bus but before that I got a chance to try to teach one of the younglings a trick. The other two had already left and I saw the lone little ripper was struggling with kickflips. I gathered some confidence and offered him some help. He agreed but it turned out that my advice was ass and his flips went from better to worse. We had forgotten the greetings and after I introduced myself it turned out that the youngster knew all the locals by name already. A great start to the summer season.
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Good session overall but struggling to get consistent fs 5-0s. Any intel?
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Good session overall but struggling to get consistent fs 5-0s. Any intel?
I'm a fairly proficient 5-0'er in both directions, but frontside is my comfort zone.
What specific issues are you having?
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Good session overall but struggling to get consistent fs 5-0s. Any intel?
Are we talking on a ledge or transition?
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Good session overall but struggling to get consistent fs 5-0s. Any intel?
Are we talking on a ledge or transition?
Ledge
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The secret is first aim for a fs nosegrind, right before it touches the ledge you bring the back truck and go for a 50-50, but then instead of putting both trucks down you just 5-0, boom
On a serious note, I learnt 5-0s while trying smiths and failing to dip the nose, but I never practice them cause it's a very scary trick for me for whatever reason
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Good session overall but struggling to get consistent fs 5-0s. Any intel?
Are we talking on a ledge or transition?
Ledge
It ultimately depends on which part of the trick you're struggling with, but I find that it helps having my shoulders slightly pointed away from the ledge while I'm grinding almost as if I was going to do a 180 out but just slightly less if that makes sense. All while making sure my weight is on the heel side.
Which part of fs 5-0s are you having a hard time with?
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Good session overall but struggling to get consistent fs 5-0s. Any intel?
Are we talking on a ledge or transition?
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It ultimately depends on which part of the trick you're struggling with, but I find that it helps having my shoulders slightly pointed away from the ledge while I'm grinding almost as if I was going to do a 180 out but just slightly less if that makes sense. All while making sure my weight is on the heel side.
Which part of fs 5-0s are you having a hard time with?
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can get into the trick correctly but mostly immediately after the back truck hits the ledge or after a few inches of grinding I shift my weight unconsciously and get down to 50 50 the rest of the ledge. This happens no matter how hard I try to „sit“ on the back truck. Sometimes I get a nice 5-0 but I don‘t even know what I did differently on those.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can get into the trick correctly but mostly immediately after the back truck hits the ledge or after a few inches of grinding I shift my weight unconsciously and get down to 50 50 the rest of the ledge. This happens no matter how hard I try to „sit“ on the back truck. Sometimes I get a nice 5-0 but I don‘t even know what I did differently on those.
Have you tried tail-scraping the 5-0 to really get a feel for shifting the weight to the back foot? Sometimes when I'm warming up 5-0s, I will do a few with a full tail scrape, then try to make them more balanced on just the back truck.
As far as mental "cues" go, I just try to ollie like a normal 50-50, then bias all my weight onto the back foot and "heel lock" my back wheel into the ledge.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can get into the trick correctly but mostly immediately after the back truck hits the ledge or after a few inches of grinding I shift my weight unconsciously and get down to 50 50 the rest of the ledge. This happens no matter how hard I try to „sit“ on the back truck. Sometimes I get a nice 5-0 but I don‘t even know what I did differently on those.
Have you tried tail-scraping the 5-0 to really get a feel for shifting the weight to the back foot? Sometimes when I'm warming up 5-0s, I will do a few with a full tail scrape, then try to make them more balanced on just the back truck.
As far as mental "cues" go, I just try to ollie like a normal 50-50, then bias all my weight onto the back foot and "heel lock" my back wheel into the ledge.
Heel lock you say... hmm...
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Met two dudes at the park. Both in skinny jeans, one pushed mongo, the other had non-abrasive grip. They agreed on && as their favorite skater.
And, contrary to popular belief here on Slap, I still had no problem having an awesome session with them. Be nice, give props and almost everybody's gonna return the favor.
Learned BS noseslide shuvit outs on a tiny downledge and got extremely close to rolling away with a bigspin out. Easter weekend is 4 days long here and I'm pretty sure I'll get it tomorrow. Life's good.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can get into the trick correctly but mostly immediately after the back truck hits the ledge or after a few inches of grinding I shift my weight unconsciously and get down to 50 50 the rest of the ledge. This happens no matter how hard I try to „sit“ on the back truck. Sometimes I get a nice 5-0 but I don‘t even know what I did differently on those.
Have you tried tail-scraping the 5-0 to really get a feel for shifting the weight to the back foot? Sometimes when I'm warming up 5-0s, I will do a few with a full tail scrape, then try to make them more balanced on just the back truck.
As far as mental "cues" go, I just try to ollie like a normal 50-50, then bias all my weight onto the back foot and "heel lock" my back wheel into the ledge.
Heel lock you say... hmm...
Have you tried doing a 180 out on one of the 5-0s that you lock into? I wonder if that would help you get around the tendency to lean forward and put your front truck back on the ledge. I say give it a few tries during your next sesh and see if it helps.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can get into the trick correctly but mostly immediately after the back truck hits the ledge or after a few inches of grinding I shift my weight unconsciously and get down to 50 50 the rest of the ledge. This happens no matter how hard I try to „sit“ on the back truck. Sometimes I get a nice 5-0 but I don‘t even know what I did differently on those.
Have you tried tail-scraping the 5-0 to really get a feel for shifting the weight to the back foot? Sometimes when I'm warming up 5-0s, I will do a few with a full tail scrape, then try to make them more balanced on just the back truck.
As far as mental "cues" go, I just try to ollie like a normal 50-50, then bias all my weight onto the back foot and "heel lock" my back wheel into the ledge.
Heel lock you say... hmm...
Maybe "heel lock" is a misnomer.
You don't want to push through your heel necessarily, but you want to create pressure in the middle of the back foot so that the back wheel closest to your heel side is locked into the ledge. I'm probably going skating tomorrow morning, so I may do a few front 5-0s and assess what I'm doing to give a clearer explanation.
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pop a 50 but do a manual
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Cheers lads, I sincerely appreciate the help.
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Cheers lads, I sincerely appreciate the help.
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I did a few front 5-0 180 outs this morning and tried to think about my technique when getting on the ledge.
I really try to aim my back mid-foot down on the ledge to aim my tail. The mid-foot aim point tends to help me get the rear heel-side wheel to sit flush with the ledge. I don't think "rocket ollie" is a good mindset for achieving this - I just try to do a fairly normal ollie with a little more back-seat emphasis.
I always intend to "tail scrape" it, but eventually you'll find a sweet spot where you can manual it without scraping so much. It's a bit of trial and error but always keep the focus on the back foot.
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Cheers lads, I sincerely appreciate the help.
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I did a few front 5-0 180 outs this morning and tried to think about my technique when getting on the ledge.
I really try to aim my back mid-foot down on the ledge to aim my tail. The mid-foot aim point tends to help me get the rear heel-side wheel to sit flush with the ledge. I don't think "rocket ollie" is a good mindset for achieving this - I just try to do a fairly normal ollie with a little more back-seat emphasis.
I always intend to "tail scrape" it, but eventually you'll find a sweet spot where you can manual it without scraping so much. It's a bit of trial and error but always keep the focus on the back foot.
I‘ll try a few tomorrow and will try to apply that technique.
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Ate crap on a fs 50. Now I hurt. Got a few good ones before the slam though.
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Cheers lads, I sincerely appreciate the help.
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I did a few front 5-0 180 outs this morning and tried to think about my technique when getting on the ledge.
I really try to aim my back mid-foot down on the ledge to aim my tail. The mid-foot aim point tends to help me get the rear heel-side wheel to sit flush with the ledge. I don't think "rocket ollie" is a good mindset for achieving this - I just try to do a fairly normal ollie with a little more back-seat emphasis.
I always intend to "tail scrape" it, but eventually you'll find a sweet spot where you can manual it without scraping so much. It's a bit of trial and error but always keep the focus on the back foot.
I‘ll try a few tomorrow and will try to apply that technique.
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been having a rough one out there lately. Pretty much go to my curb spot everyday and just do a bunch of fifties, but eventually try and get some of my old flatground tricks back. Go to was switch hardflips many moons ago, but now they are completely removed from my muscle memory.
Been trying to learn slappy switch crooks as my friend says theyre pretty much a noseslide, and got into a few but always end up popping out after a second and into a boardslide. Better luck next time.
Would be grateful for tips on those, regular crooks, and noseslides
May just switch stances
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been having a rough one out there lately. Pretty much go to my curb spot everyday and just do a bunch of fifties, but eventually try and get some of my old flatground tricks back. Go to was switch hardflips many moons ago, but now they are completely removed from my muscle memory.
Been trying to learn slappy switch crooks as my friend says theyre pretty much a noseslide, and got into a few but always end up popping out after a second and into a boardslide. Better luck next time.
Would be grateful for tips on those, regular crooks, and noseslides
May just switch stances
Regular bs drooks, roll up fast, parallel, then carve into the curb and stomp the front foot on the curb as you get onto it. Front foot is disgonally in the nose pocket. Ball of the backfoot for me has to be in the back heel (!) pocket to get the leverage to pop/turn out to regular.
Fs works the same but mirrored (i.e. backfoot is in heel pocket) but I am not good at them so I might do them wrong.
I need a slanted curb for them too, at least ever so slightly.
Bs crooks come extremely easy, look good and are so much fun.
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Yesterday at the Ikea parking lot. I still feel sick, now the cold is in it's 10th week and that is really annoying. Still went out to skate because I need that for my mental health. Didn't have that much energy and I was totally toast after 3 hours. Did Kickflips, Heelflips and Fs Shuvs for an hour because I wanted one of each that felt great. And filmed a bs slappy back 180 out which I haven't done in a while so that was cool.
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3 old man morning sessions in Barcelona. Macba, Picnic and Born Plaza. All amazing but my favourite thing was actually skating street again for the first time in decades. Can't beat that shit. I'm back home now and going for a sesh later on but the thought of being confined to a park just doesn't bring the stoke as much as skating from one spot to another does.
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Good. Made significant progress on fs grinds to fakie on a tight transition. Had them on lock 20+ years ago, even remember the very last one I did (arguably the best one too). The transition I'm working on doesn't have coping though, and never done one on something without coping, so will be interesting next session whether I hang up when I start committing to them...
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Cheers lads, I sincerely appreciate the help.
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I did a few front 5-0 180 outs this morning and tried to think about my technique when getting on the ledge.
I really try to aim my back mid-foot down on the ledge to aim my tail. The mid-foot aim point tends to help me get the rear heel-side wheel to sit flush with the ledge. I don't think "rocket ollie" is a good mindset for achieving this - I just try to do a fairly normal ollie with a little more back-seat emphasis.
I always intend to "tail scrape" it, but eventually you'll find a sweet spot where you can manual it without scraping so much. It's a bit of trial and error but always keep the focus on the back foot.
I‘ll try a few tomorrow and will try to apply that technique.
Bruh, focusing on that back foot heel lock in really got me close to getting a few nice ones. I missed the ledge tho, rolled on top of it for a few inches until I locked in but I feel I am getting there.
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been having a rough one out there lately. Pretty much go to my curb spot everyday and just do a bunch of fifties, but eventually try and get some of my old flatground tricks back. Go to was switch hardflips many moons ago, but now they are completely removed from my muscle memory.
Been trying to learn slappy switch crooks as my friend says theyre pretty much a noseslide, and got into a few but always end up popping out after a second and into a boardslide. Better luck next time.
Would be grateful for tips on those, regular crooks, and noseslides
May just switch stances
Regular bs drooks, roll up fast, parallel, then carve into the curb and stomp the front foot on the curb as you get onto it. Front foot is disgonally in the nose pocket. Ball of the backfoot for me has to be in the back heel (!) pocket to get the leverage to pop/turn out to regular.
Fs works the same but mirrored (i.e. backfoot is in heel pocket) but I am not good at them so I might do them wrong.
I need a slanted curb for them too, at least ever so slightly.
Bs crooks come extremely easy, look good and are so much fun.
Thanks homie! Hoping to try this today
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My last few sessions have been pretty good. I've been going down to a prefab park about 30 miles away to practice some of my tricks and it's been a big booster to my confidence in my skating. The first sesh I pushed myself to skate the taller ledge and I got a 50-50 180 and crooks on it. I skated a little transition and the hip. Last week I came back and skated the small ledge with a few tricks I'm not as good at and got a nollie 50-50 and even learned front noseslides. I want to keep with those soon because they're a lot of fun once you get locked in and I feel like there's a lot of potential for spots and possibly even front crooks in the future.
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skated today while having sore throat/covid
just did quarter pipe tricks for the most part
my back disasters are really feeling good on big tranny again - for the last 3 years they been major poopy because i started skating tiny quarterpips and you just cant get a good scoop unless you force it
couldnt land a crook on a tiny ledge and called it a day because if i cant land my goto's its just not worth forcing it
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Cheers lads, I sincerely appreciate the help.
I really try to aim my back mid-foot down on the ledge to aim my tail. The mid-foot aim point tends to help me get the rear heel-side wheel to sit flush with the ledge. I don't think "rocket ollie" is a good mindset for achieving this - I just try to do a fairly normal ollie with a little more back-seat emphasis.
I always intend to "tail scrape" it, but eventually you'll find a sweet spot where you can manual it without scraping so much. It's a bit of trial and error but always keep the focus on the back foot.
I‘ll try a few tomorrow and will try to apply that technique.
Bruh, focusing on that back foot heel lock in really got me close to getting a few nice ones. I missed the ledge tho, rolled on top of it for a few inches until I locked in but I feel I am getting there.
Hell yeah! Glad to hear it helped. I tend to miss on/over the top of the ledge when I miss as well, so that is probably a good indicator that your aim is more consistent now.
Edit: I did go skate today as well. Went to the park around 7:45 am. Last time I skated same park (mentioned above lol) I did some Front 5-0 180s on this gap-in ledge that goes over a manny pad. You basically have to ollie up a small 2 stair to get into the ledge. Today I decided to go for 5-0 Front shuv. Good hour battle. Landed 4-5 sketchy ones, then finally squeezed out a good make. Satisfying way to start off what has been a very lazy Sunday.
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Managed to get four days off work and planned to skate for most it, within the first hour landed primo doing a varial kickflip and can now barely even walk from where my foot landed on the board. Just my luck.
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Decided to randomly stop and skate as the sun was going down at my local, but I wasn't in my skate clothes or skate shoes (baggys and accel ogs). I said fuck it and started skating in my skinny jeans and vans non skate shoes anyway and proceeded to give my naked ankle the worst shark bite I've ever had within two minutes. Happy Easter.
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tried backside D's on a little steep quarter but all i got was a D in my backside :(
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Just figured out proper fs flips, I'm in heaven
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Just figured out proper fs flips, I'm in heaven
Stoked for you (and jealous). Now you have to tell us how to do them. ;)
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Just figured out proper fs flips, I'm in heaven
Stoked for you (and jealous). Now you have to tell us how to do them. ;)
Ty. You know tricks that land far to the side like tre's, it helped me a lot to heavily lean/jump to where it lands, like towards the nose of the board when it's mid trick, feels easier to follow and feel the nose to flick it, I do this for inward heels too.
Other than that I just needed to try harder. Front foot almost pointing forward, more body spin and fs pop shuv motion, and that feel of delay before flicking (and down'ish).
Front foot still stops a bit of the nose momentum but the tail goes around
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Just figured out proper fs flips, I'm in heaven
Stoked for you (and jealous). Now you have to tell us how to do them. ;)
Ty. You know tricks that land far to the side like tre's, it helped me a lot to heavily lean/jump to where it lands, like towards the nose of the board when it's mid trick, feels easier to follow and feel the nose to flick it, I do this for inward heels too.
Other than that I just needed to try harder. Front foot almost pointing forward, more body spin and fs pop shuv motion, and that feel of delay before flicking (and down'ish).
Front foot still stops a bit of the nose momentum but the tail goes around
Where is your front foot, close to bolts like for kickflips or further down the mid section?
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Just figured out proper fs flips, I'm in heaven
Stoked for you (and jealous). Now you have to tell us how to do them. ;)
Ty. You know tricks that land far to the side like tre's, it helped me a lot to heavily lean/jump to where it lands, like towards the nose of the board when it's mid trick, feels easier to follow and feel the nose to flick it, I do this for inward heels too.
Other than that I just needed to try harder. Front foot almost pointing forward, more body spin and fs pop shuv motion, and that feel of delay before flicking (and down'ish).
Front foot still stops a bit of the nose momentum but the tail goes around
Where is your front foot, close to bolts like for kickflips or further down the mid section?
At first it was right on the middle, it worked and it felt like I was flicking off that bump before the nose, but then I started moving it up a bit and it felt better, but it was still a few inches away from touching bolts
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Got a quick little sesh in after my sons skate class at my local DIY, first roll in 3 weeks! Got some shit back that’s been doing my head in for a bit, just scared to commit (but I could do it in my mind), glad I gave it a shot.
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Just figured out proper fs flips, I'm in heaven
Stoked for you (and jealous). Now you have to tell us how to do them. ;)
Ty. You know tricks that land far to the side like tre's, it helped me a lot to heavily lean/jump to where it lands, like towards the nose of the board when it's mid trick, feels easier to follow and feel the nose to flick it, I do this for inward heels too.
Other than that I just needed to try harder. Front foot almost pointing forward, more body spin and fs pop shuv motion, and that feel of delay before flicking (and down'ish).
Front foot still stops a bit of the nose momentum but the tail goes around
Where is your front foot, close to bolts like for kickflips or further down the mid section?
At first it was right on the middle, it worked and it felt like I was flicking off that bump before the nose, but then I started moving it up a bit and it felt better, but it was still a few inches away from touching bolts
Nodoby asked me but Im still gonna opinion on this:
It took me a while to land them cause I could never do the Muska version as a youngster.
A few years ago I figured to not think of them as a fs flip (full 180°), instead in my head Im doing for a 90° kickflip (with some extra pop like Im jumping over something), try to catch it mid air and keep rotating the next 90° or so degrees... or pivoting sometimes in flat ground.
My front feet goes a little behind the 2 back bolts from the nose, I normally step on them for a regular kickflip. Back foot goes into the corner but the most crucial thing its to already have your shoulders open while you pop: you're halfway the trick so as soon as you catch the board in the air you just have to keep rotating those last 90°. As i said; they are, somehow, particularly easier for my mind if I only focus on doing a "big 90° kickflip", maybe this could help someone.
Now about my last session:
I had to go to the local skatepark Ive always hated; its one of those early 2000 parks where everything its huge (THPS design in mind), lots of space and $ wasted, unmaintained and as you would expect: it doesn't have any basic box or manual pad in sight.
Got there at 9 am, no one around, amazing time to warm up, stretch and land a few interesting tricks (even 2 fs flips and a nollie fs 360 aka nolliecab on a hip). By 11 am it was fully packed of roller skaters on every quarter pipe waxing any piece of coping visible. Dudes are organized on turning a fucked up old park into a slip and slide so I took my shit and went back home to play with my kids instead :)
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Just figured out proper fs flips, I'm in heaven
Stoked for you (and jealous). Now you have to tell us how to do them. ;)
Ty. You know tricks that land far to the side like tre's, it helped me a lot to heavily lean/jump to where it lands, like towards the nose of the board when it's mid trick, feels easier to follow and feel the nose to flick it, I do this for inward heels too.
Other than that I just needed to try harder. Front foot almost pointing forward, more body spin and fs pop shuv motion, and that feel of delay before flicking (and down'ish).
Front foot still stops a bit of the nose momentum but the tail goes around
Where is your front foot, close to bolts like for kickflips or further down the mid section?
At first it was right on the middle, it worked and it felt like I was flicking off that bump before the nose, but then I started moving it up a bit and it felt better, but it was still a few inches away from touching bolts
Nodoby asked me but Im still gonna opinion on this:
It took me a while to land them cause I could never do the Muska version as a youngster.
A few years ago I figured to not think of them as a fs flip (full 180°), instead in my head Im doing for a 90° kickflip (with some extra pop like Im jumping over something), try to catch it mid air and keep rotating the next 90° or so degrees... or pivoting sometimes in flat ground.
My front feet goes a little behind the 2 back bolts from the nose, I normally step on them for a regular kickflip. Back foot goes into the corner but the most crucial thing its to already have your shoulders open while you pop: you're halfway the trick so as soon as you catch the board in the air you just have to keep rotating those last 90°. As i said; they are, somehow, particularly easier for my mind if I only focus on doing a "big 90° kickflip", maybe this could help someone.
Now about my last session:
I had to go to the local skatepark Ive always hated; its one of those early 2000 parks where everything its huge (THPS design in mind), lots of space and $ wasted, unmaintained and as you would expect: it doesn't have any basic box or manual pad in sight.
Got there at 9 am, no one around, amazing time to warm up, stretch and land a few interesting tricks (even 2 fs flips and a nollie fs 360 aka nolliecab on a hip). By 11 am it was fully packed of roller skaters on every quarter pipe waxing any piece of coping visible. Dudes are organized on turning a fucked up old park into a slip and slide so I took my shit and went back home to play with my kids instead :)
Can you describe how you jump with a fs flip? That's what seems to elude me. I think I'm distributing my weight when I pop incorrectly and it's diminishing my leaping power. I have 180s well and good kickflips almost on demand but I just can't figure it out. The board always ends up a little above and infront of me. Sometimes I'll get the flick right and the board will do it perfectly but my body isn't above it. If you have any insight I'd appreciate it. I think I understand most aspects of the trick like shoulders open, where the feet go, getting the front foot out of the way... I just can't figure out what the back foot needs to be doing or how to maximize my power. Thx!
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October was the last time I was skating steadily and all my old injuries started acting up again + general rust. Moved cities and I’ve been getting back into it, certain basics are slow to come back. Got my frontside Ollie’s back and even threw a couple frontside Ollie late shuvs on the little quarter at my new local but can’t land them yet. Probably my next trick to obsess over until I get over it
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Saw some dope stuff go down yesterday, friends got a few clips so that was sick. The obstacle was too buck for me, so I skated a lot of flat and tried to hype them up. I'm excited about some tricks lately, because I'm starting to really figure out the nuances of the board after a few years. Some stuff I came close to yesterday: tre flip (any day now), fs heel flip (back foot issues), and I've been trying to get fakie flips as consistent as kickflips at a high rate of speed.
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last skate session was friday, little kids were boxing each other outside the park for fun.
why pay for ppv when i can just watch two 12 year old's do it for fun?
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I just fucking smashed the curbs. I got every 80 in i can think of to 50 or single truck. I got lines. I got a flat session warm up and cool down. A kid asked for a kickflip. I did a turn over and threw a switch flip but landed primo. I was feeling myself tonight. My board control has never been this good ever. I just had to change the way i skated and boom. Im in a whole new world of endless possibilities. It only took from 2016 a torn acl and 7 staples in the head to get here this time. Top of the world ma.
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Back tailed on a legitimate ledge on my first session with a slightly longer wheelbase. Really loved the way shit felt in general! Plus it's just now warmed up into the 70s in Michigan... rare perfect weather.
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Had a decent session at the ol' crust park even though I basically only landed 1 acceptable kickflip out of 10. Spent the rest of it fucking around on a ledge grass gap an old skate acquaintance made out of a roll of astroturf. It's maybe 8 feet long or something. Was sliding some good front noses like 3 feet past the damn thing but kept slipping out or couldn't set them down properly. Not used to coming out mid-ledge on that trick. I even locked into 2 where I was sliding on top of my baseplate as opposed to on the front of it. Really weird sound and feeling when you're trying to noseslide something.
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Over Easter I got my first street clip since 2005. It'll probably end up as a little throwaway line but boy, what a feeling. Wasn't quite ready for that dopamine rush even though I'd pictured the moment ever since I stepped back on a board last summer. Skating's the best y'all.
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I’m back home from a session. It was good. I landed a FS bigspin third try. The last time I was doing them was about 13 years ago. Muscle memory is still there! Unfortunately it was the only one I landed properly. Was doing a couple more tricks, holding manuals and riding switch. While riding switch I felt so unstable that other skaters asked me “what happens?? Are you ok?” ;D They didn’t noticed it was switch.
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Managed to flip into a grind which made my old ass feel better. Forgot I know how to one foot Ollie and did a couple which impressed some kids. Frankly one of the worst sessions I’ve had in a while but somehow fun.
More and more expectations and reality are so far apart.
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did 3 kickflips in my driveway, haven't skated since november. From november to yesterday was the longest i've ever gone without wearing skate shoes and holy shit they are comically uncomfortable.
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Woke up around 6:30 am, caught the sunrise with my morning coffee before heading to the smaller local park I frequent during the week.
I went in with the intent of just pushing around and getting some movement in, but started messing around with flip tricks and realized my fakie varial heelflips were working today.
I re-filmed a fakie v-heel on the a-frame obstacle and landed it way cleaner than the previous one I filmed about a month or so ago. Only took about 20 minutes which is a quick land for tricks I'm not usually good at.
Decided to leave on a W and went to a local bakery to grab some goodies for my fiance and myself before work. Pretty nice Friday Jr. so far.
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Just figured out proper fs flips, I'm in heaven
Stoked for you (and jealous). Now you have to tell us how to do them. ;)
Ty. You know tricks that land far to the side like tre's, it helped me a lot to heavily lean/jump to where it lands, like towards the nose of the board when it's mid trick, feels easier to follow and feel the nose to flick it, I do this for inward heels too.
Other than that I just needed to try harder. Front foot almost pointing forward, more body spin and fs pop shuv motion, and that feel of delay before flicking (and down'ish).
Front foot still stops a bit of the nose momentum but the tail goes around
Where is your front foot, close to bolts like for kickflips or further down the mid section?
At first it was right on the middle, it worked and it felt like I was flicking off that bump before the nose, but then I started moving it up a bit and it felt better, but it was still a few inches away from touching bolts
Nodoby asked me but Im still gonna opinion on this:
It took me a while to land them cause I could never do the Muska version as a youngster.
A few years ago I figured to not think of them as a fs flip (full 180°), instead in my head Im doing for a 90° kickflip (with some extra pop like Im jumping over something), try to catch it mid air and keep rotating the next 90° or so degrees... or pivoting sometimes in flat ground.
My front feet goes a little behind the 2 back bolts from the nose, I normally step on them for a regular kickflip. Back foot goes into the corner but the most crucial thing its to already have your shoulders open while you pop: you're halfway the trick so as soon as you catch the board in the air you just have to keep rotating those last 90°. As i said; they are, somehow, particularly easier for my mind if I only focus on doing a "big 90° kickflip", maybe this could help someone.
Now about my last session:
I had to go to the local skatepark Ive always hated; its one of those early 2000 parks where everything its huge (THPS design in mind), lots of space and $ wasted, unmaintained and as you would expect: it doesn't have any basic box or manual pad in sight.
Got there at 9 am, no one around, amazing time to warm up, stretch and land a few interesting tricks (even 2 fs flips and a nollie fs 360 aka nolliecab on a hip). By 11 am it was fully packed of roller skaters on every quarter pipe waxing any piece of coping visible. Dudes are organized on turning a fucked up old park into a slip and slide so I took my shit and went back home to play with my kids instead :)
Can you describe how you jump with a fs flip? That's what seems to elude me. I think I'm distributing my weight when I pop incorrectly and it's diminishing my leaping power. I have 180s well and good kickflips almost on demand but I just can't figure it out. The board always ends up a little above and infront of me. Sometimes I'll get the flick right and the board will do it perfectly but my body isn't above it. If you have any insight I'd appreciate it. I think I understand most aspects of the trick like shoulders open, where the feet go, getting the front foot out of the way... I just can't figure out what the back foot needs to be doing or how to maximize my power. Thx!
I’m no expert as mine are not very consistent, but lean back when you pop.
Weight heavily over the tail and a little to your back/ass.
E: about my last skate session, haven’t skated much during the winter. Just a couple of flatground sessions basically. Now that the snow has cleared, I thought it would be really awkward and I’d have to re-learn a lot of stuff like I usually do.
But to my suprice, most of my stuff is still there and I could just come to back to sessioning the park.
Got a new variation of an old trick first go.
Stoked.
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Finally landed a fakie fs flip. I was so surprised to be standing on the board it took me a millisec to realise I had done it.
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Finally landed a fakie fs flip. I was so surprised to be standing on the board it took me a millisec to realise I had done it.
nice job my gangsta
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First time skating under spotlights, got the call up for a Friday night session.
Slapped a solid 40 minutes after a 10hr work day, pretty stoked with my output too.
Will do again.
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First time skating under spotlights, got the call up for a Friday night session.
Slapped a solid 40 minutes after a 10hr work day, pretty stoked with my output too.
Will do again.
It’s good to have a late night spot. The different ligyting takes a bit of adaptation but you get used to it.
I got another lipslide on the flatbar and am slowly building up the confidence to commit on these suckers.
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First sesh on Venture V-Hollows coming from Indy Forged. Pretty weird at first. I had to pop a lill different because they are so explosiv on my 8.25 Polar Deck.
The turn was awful at first too. I missed the "lean in" factor while doing my fakie tricks like halfcab heels or cabs on quarters. I almost took them off again but I pushed through. After 2 hours or so I loosened them a lill turn and I got used to them a bit more. I like how my FS shuvs are coming up to my feet again. Also pulled my best Kickflip on the bank I ever did I think. Tre Flips were a struggle but I landed a few good ones. So far I see more positives then negatives with these venture. I hope they last longer then the 3 pairs of indys that broke on me in the last few months.
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i'm getting frontside slashes more consistently and on bigger transition now. i was able to lock into a frontside 5-0 stall a couple times, or whatever you want to call it, so maybe standup grinds are a possibility. frontside 5050 and standup grinds would be things i never thought i'd be able to do on anything bigger than 3 feet transition so thatd be nice
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The past five or so months were a heavy winter and I was quite sedentary through all of it. Cycled up to the park and toyed around for about an hour and a half. Probably one of the longest sessions I've had in a year. Loved it! Landed a few FS boards on a curb and that's all. It just feels good to be on the board and getting confident on it again. I'm very tired now. Can't wait to get back at it again in the coming days.
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Finally landed a fakie fs flip. I was so surprised to be standing on the board it took me a millisec to realise I had done it.
Congrats! I had them on lock when I was 15 but havent done them in ages. Will try next sesh, it is a good looking trick when popped properly.
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Had a shit day, skated a mid park after work, had a good time there nothing new was landed. Decided to go to a second park, drove a half hour and the second I roll in some kid in a group yells, "kickflip." Ignored him, and hit a Manny pad and one of them just shouts at me. I roll around, another kid yells, "kickflip" and at this point I feel like all these fuckers have their greasy eyes on me. Go for a front nose, bail. And shout kid does it again, so I just got really pissed and left. Am I an ass hole?
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Finally landed a fakie fs flip. I was so surprised to be standing on the board it took me a millisec to realise I had done it.
Congrats! I had them on lock when I was 15 but havent done them in ages. Will try next sesh, it is a good looking trick when popped properly.
Cheers my dude, I haven‘t been able to get another one since but will keep at it now that I know I got them in me. I also had regular fs flips back in the day but they seem much harder now.
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No skate for 2-3 weeks, 10 stitches in the hip after having a suspect mole taken out. Pretty bummed but fingers crossed biopsy results are good.
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Sunday is strictly slappies for me.
It was raining so I tried to skate a parking block in an underground parking lot where I work. Got a fs and bs 50/50 but when I was getting ready to crook, a car pulled up next to the block which I suspected to be security so I got out.
I moved on to my regular curb with the rain set up and got two or three bs crooks when a woman yelled out of the window that her baby was sleeping.
I moved to another underground parking but the curbs there were to steep so I called it a day.
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Fun sesh with some older guys that like to skate bowls. Finally getting consistent 50 grinds in the deep end, it's taken me a while to get to the point where i'm not scared to fall back into the bowl if I bail the grind. The older guys lasted a couple of hours but I still had some left in me so I fucked around doing some footplants over a pyramid hip, got some frontside and backside bonelesses and a few texas plants.
i'm getting frontside slashes more consistently and on bigger transition now. i was able to lock into a frontside 5-0 stall a couple times, or whatever you want to call it, so maybe standup grinds are a possibility. frontside 5050 and standup grinds would be things i never thought i'd be able to do on anything bigger than 3 feet transition so thatd be nice
If you can 5-0 stall/pivot on something then you can definitely standup 5-0 grind it. I find frontside pivots harder than stand up grinds because you don't have the momentum helping you get back into the ramp. To go from a quick front slash to a legit frontside grind I focus on pushing my back heel into the coping when i'm grinding so I stay in the grind position just an extra millisecond longer.
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Good and bad.
Made some progress in the mini today. Fs/Bs Disaster and a Fs Lip. A few Fs 50s and some nice Bs Smith.
Was pretty chill. I had the whole indoor for myself.
Flatground was kinda meh. I left my whole energy in the mini ramp. Took me way to long to land a sketchy full cab. Didn't even tried any flips. Then I tried a halfcab manual bs 180 out on the pad, came close to a few, last try I slipped out, stepped on my nose with one foot, made the splits and fucked my knee. It's a bit swollen but I think it's nothing to bad. I'm so fucked now, good times.
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I did nollie bs 5-0 shove it out for first time (on super small curb) but i am stoked. Later we had crazy expirience with one gypsy with al capone tattoo on his throat and escobar tattoo on his neck. He was trying to trick us something saying he came from a very distant town (with a taxi payin 200 euros) to meet a woman, but the woman dumped him and he slept on the street, that he has forgotton his id card in his town but needed someone to help him with id so his mother would send him money from germany through western union money transfer, and this was on the orthodox easter holiday when noone works, and other crazy stuff like he was a europen kickbox champion :) well, street life
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I skated the park yesterday morning and helped a kid do his first ollie. He was juiced as hell. It ruled.
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Had a pretty rad skate weekend! My body is sore but my inner skate rat is fulfilled.
The local Team Pain park had a 5th birthday event on Saturday with a bunch of little contests spread through the day. I had the opportunity to judge the contests and get some runs in between events.
The park has a massive concrete bowl in the back with a 7 foot shallow and 12 foot deep end. The final event of the day was a pro contest in the bowl with a few metal bands playing on the deck. Somehow I managed to take one of the first runs before things started popping off and dropped into the shallow end right when the band started playing which got me fired up. Pumped through the corner of the deep end for the first time, hitting full tile and everything. Felt rather "hellride" if you will.
Still had some leftover stoke on Sunday so I went back out to the park for a short afternoon sesh. I backside flipped the bump to jersey barrier first try, then battled for a bit to get another one on film. Somehow landed one bolts after cracking my board twice in the center. Nice way to book-end an eventful weekend.
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tile rides are sick
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kinda dorky guy shows up to the park with brand new bright pink and blue spitfire wax. makes so sure to use the TINIEST amount of wax possible on the ledge so he doesnt waste it. ends up forgetting it and leaves it at the park after skating for like 10 minutes.
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tile rides are sick
Brick rides too. Pile of leaves on bricks is sick
Skating feels good right now. Really spent the last session doing lines back and forth in a lot. No comply 180, sw ollie, 180 powerslide to regs, trying to figure back D on parking block. On the return to other end i worked on 3 flips. Never tried em until about a dew weeks ago and im figuring it out. Rotated and flipped one under the body, feet gor crossed up and i landed with my ass on the board but i rolled away ;)
Felt good
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Last session was good but I’ve come to a realization that my fear of falling is holding back my progress. I got injured this summer and have been lowkey scared ever since. I haven’t slammed in a couple of months, which is concerning cause I think I’ll have a higher chance of getting hurt when I do since I’m no longer used to falling.
Anyway, gonna buy a gymnastics mat on Amazon, take it to my favorite tennis court and deliberately fall off my board a bunch. Hope I don’t look like a kook 😅
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skated alone at the spot i usually go to because the local park is always crammed with people i want to avoid.
tried holding longer bluntslides on this ledge and got a good one popped out. skated an annoying garbage can gap thing.
by the time i was done i wanted to not skate for like a week, so i think im gonna do that. things are starting to feel too much routine and its a depressing one. i recently moved cities and just dont feel the same + miss my friends
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Last session I skated with forest edwards at the skatepark and it was a dope session. The temperature was like 72 around 2pm and it was dope.
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I'm doing good AF today. Got a new one. My curbs under construction by the town tho
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Today I had a one and a half hour session. I improved my foot placement for heelflips, and now I can do them more consistently. I've always done heelflips with my feet positioned as if I'm doing an ollie. Other than that, it was a crappy session. I repeatedly hit the bone on my ankle with the board while doing fakie frontside shove its. I think it's worse than hitting your shin. Because of the pain, I couldn't continue skating, and I went back home.
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Had a shit day, skated a mid park after work, had a good time there nothing new was landed. Decided to go to a second park, drove a half hour and the second I roll in some kid in a group yells, "kickflip." Ignored him, and hit a Manny pad and one of them just shouts at me. I roll around, another kid yells, "kickflip" and at this point I feel like all these fuckers have their greasy eyes on me. Go for a front nose, bail. And shout kid does it again, so I just got really pissed and left. Am I an ass hole?
not an asshole just dumb for driving that far and being deterred so easily by stupid kids
now my am I an asshole story - One of the fellow adult locals was trying to learn fs heel flip on flat (which i cant do), and I said something like 'oh man i hear thats one of the hardest flip trick 180s, like i heard it takes a ton of power to get it around', which I later realized sounded like I was implying he doesnt have enough power to land it which was probably my true thought at the time but I just let it slip out in this underhanded sneak asshole way
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I moved last year and only really just started to work out the local park due to weather. Trying to ride around everywhere and use every corner of the park in lines. It’s a metal 2000’s park and doesn’t dry well. I’m going to start taking towel to dry the mini when there’s dew on the ramps.
Last session there I slammed trying to ollie/pop out from the mini extension to grinding into a little quarter (another line) ended up sliding over 2 ramps and onto flat bank. bruised hand and got dust all over me. At least I did it in front of the locals.
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I've had to start rocking a single elbow pad on my right arm to compliment the wrist guard on my left hand this week. Also had to start rocking knee compression sleeves. I'm getting closer to sw tres; I commit to almost every try, but they either only half flip or I land primo when I try to give it a little something extra. I tried 20 of them today in between skating transition at an empty park that is usually crowded enough to kill its flow
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Had a couple of sessions Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday I skated downtown at some ledges at a bank. Got a noseslide to fakie and to regular, tried tailslide but my pop was just off, so I decided to pass on it. Walked up to the top of a tall parking garage and decided to ride all the way down doing little jumps off the speed bumps. Not too bad, my body was just feeling weird so I decided to cut it short.
I had some time between work and family stuff to get a flatground sesh in. Got all my 180's and started analyzing my shuvs to start getting them more consistent and they worked! Landed some switch and nollie shuvs and ended it off with a couple of kickflips albeit shitty ones. Pretty good end to the sesh though.
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practiced front tailslides on transition. they're not that bad if you front 5-0 & kind of late turn into the tail once youre on top of it
the other secret is to come at it really wide. other than that, was pretty mellow
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the park was empty except for me and a couple scooter kids.
I start to skate the mini-ramp and the scooter kids decide they want to skate the mini-ramp as well.
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Got to the park early. Skated a little while with one other dude, then the sprinklers came on and soaked the park. Lame.
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I got fucked up today. My shin got blasted doing fakie front tail.
I should have been making money but I had to do the curb. Now I'm off my feet and missed out on a sure meal.
I gotta make a change. I'm not making it through the month anymore.
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Shitty session again today. Practiced my heelflips, fakie fs shuvs and a couple of tricks more and went back home with a few painful shinners. At least I’m happy for the 12 yo kids progressing faster than me ::)
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Practice front 5-0s but didn't get any decent ones. Bummer.
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Was a bit hungover but the weather was far too nice in the UK today to stay indoors so I dragged my carcass to the local.
Kept it fairly mellow, had a nightmare of a time with BS flips which I seem to be struggling with a little lately after having them pretty dialled.
Toward the end of the session I smashed out some pretty beefy varial flips, have somehow cracked the code on them the last few weeks to get them caught a good foot off the floor. Really decent popped fakie bigflip to finish the session off...deffo a better day than I'd expected a couple hours prior.
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got not a single tre flip - but then again, i threw only like 5 out, so i guess its my fault for not trying
got a ridiculously long back 5-0 on transition today
practice front tailslides on tranny
wallrides are dummy easy for me now for some reason, im not even nervous anymore when i roll up to the wall
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Think I overdid it. 5 hour session and my legs are shot, hard to call it quits during a good sesh though.
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Think I overdid it. 5 hour session and my legs are shot, hard to call it quits during a good sesh though.
These are the fucking best ones.
You’re done after three, but just keep going and going.
Hydrate son.
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Dreadful, I couldn't land anything, feeling totally off on my skateboard right now. Tricks that I can usually do every time have been super challenging and frustrating for the past week.
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Went to out local DIY spot today. Had a little bootie call last night and sleept like 4 hours. Last session went terrible so all In all I didn’t have any expectation today. Had a great session. Went off fine tuning switch 3’s over the funbox, made 10 of 12 tries, didn’t miss any switch flips and did a bunch of regular flips over. Even learned a new trick, bs 180 fakie nosegrind and coming back regular. Funny how the mind works sometimes. And getting new tricks still at 45 feels freaking great too.
Switch 3 from the previous shit session ;D
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrrB3ODO7zf/
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Tried to do pressure flips. Kept flipping 360 flips.
Can do neither trick.
💪
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Went to this litte cutty curb spot where I have a bunch of sections waxed to varying degrees. Working on getting my nollie tails dialed in a bit better. Starting to get them to slide more that 3in and more than once every few tries. WIP...
Did some slappies, noseslides, and some of flatground to keep what few tricks I have.
Skated this new little spot during the week after work, which i have been wanting to do for a min. Finally pulled the cord. Worth it.
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Had a fun one yesterday at one of the older parks I go to 1-2x a month.
This particular park has some great ledges, but also has a 5~ foot mini ramp with some 4~ foot quarterpipes that create a hip into each side of the mini. The cool part about this design is that you can do stalls out of the smaller quarterpipes onto the edge of the mini ramp deck and back in if you can power-ollie the gap between the ramps.
Worked on some front tail pop-ins on this element and got a few nice and fluid ones. After that, worked on ollie hip transfers into the mini. I've been focusing a lot on my flip and ledge tricks the past few months, so it was fun to focus a little more on transition.
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First real session since I know that I have long covid.
Managed to skate for 5 hours with the boys.
The stamina and the energy is kinda still there but my balance feels so off. I was falling a lot.
Sometimes I see stars when I crouch and get up too fast.
Tweaked my right arm on a stupid slam.
Scratched both elbows and fell on my left hand.
Filmed a half cab flip to fakie at a super crusty ditch spot.
I was completely done when I got back home. Fell asleep. Woke up at 4 am because I was hungry and needed sugar.
Thanks for listening pals.
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Woke up pretty groggy, but walked outside this morning for my usual sun exposure/coffee routine and decided to take advantage of the cooler weather. Went to a-frame/QP/a-frame park as is usually the move on weekday mornings.
I have been working on nollie backside 180s lately, and I'm finally starting to pop them the way I'd like. I will typically try lines that open with tricks I am working on to get more practice. Worked on this line for a bit and filmed 2 decent makes:
Nollie backside 180 a-frame, half cab rock to fakie QP, fakie varial flip a-frame
Fakie v-flips are a frustrating one! One of those tricks you will mess up consistently if you are overthinking it. Keeping the hips in line with the deck is the hardest part for me.
Hit the local bakery post-sesh for cold brew and baked goods before work.
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I ate shit no more that 30 minutes in to skating for the day. Still had a grand time.
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Twisted my ankle on a heel flip (what else) but could continue. Hopefully it won‘t be too bad tomorrow, weather forecast is nice.
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Had a good late night sesh on Saturday night. Lein to tails on the 6' QP are becoming easier and quicker (still not that HULK SMASH type of tail smack yet....), kinda figuring out baby body jars, had a fun early grab shitshow with a friend (early lein, early indy, early indy to tail).
Local shop owner shows up to toss product for tricks so I threw a few runs out. Ended up getting FS slash back to fakie on the 6', got tossed a tee shirt, tried to put the tee on mid-line, ended with a hit on the next QP with a back D revert with the shirt half on. Left the park with a shop tee and a smile.
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Been pushing myself to progress and recording a lot and it has me a burned out. I’m coming up on a year of doing this. Do y’all just skate for months sometimes without getting clips?
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Been pushing myself to progress and recording a lot and it has me a burned out. I’m coming up on a year of doing this. Do y’all just skate for months sometimes without getting clips?
Absolutely. I don't usually feel like trying hard enough to film anything that I'd be surprised about or fully stoked on. Most sessions are me skating around doing go-to's with a couple hail marys or some workshopping.
But then I land something rad and I'm like, "damn, wish that was recorded". I try not to get hung up on it and just flow.
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Been pushing myself to progress and recording a lot and it has me a burned out. I’m coming up on a year of doing this. Do y’all just skate for months sometimes without getting clips?
But then I land something rad and I'm like, "damn, wish that was recorded". I try not to get hung up on it and just flow.
That’s what I’m going to try and do. Also, things never look as cool as they feel for me lol. So it’s best to focus on the feeling instead of how I look.
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Been pushing myself to progress and recording a lot and it has me a burned out. I’m coming up on a year of doing this. Do y’all just skate for months sometimes without getting clips?
But then I land something rad and I'm like, "damn, wish that was recorded". I try not to get hung up on it and just flow.
When I got back to skating in 2020 I pretty much filmed everything because I made so much progress and also was stoked to just being able to do it. Coming from the 90s where not many dudes had the equipment this was novel. I put together a few „parts“ demonstrating my progress which has been fun (also the editing part).
Then I hit a point where progress became much slower and it was more about getting more comfortable and consistent with the tricks I had, and yes, at my age, also trying not to lose tricks again. I did learn some new stuff but I have not filmed a clip in eight months. I just felt there was nothing really worth filming I had not already done. What‘s the point in filming another mediocre kickflip or slappy grind when I already have dozens of clips doing just that?
Plus my filmer aka wife got a bit tired of spending her weekends at desolate parking lots, schoolyards and industrial sites. So I just went out skating alone, every day. And it‘s nice.
At this point I am not even sure I am going to film anything anytime soon, although I am slowly getting fakie fs flips dialed so having proof of that would be nice.
Tl;dr short answer yes
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Been pushing myself to progress and recording a lot and it has me a burned out. I’m coming up on a year of doing this. Do y’all just skate for months sometimes without getting clips?
But then I land something rad and I'm like, "damn, wish that was recorded". I try not to get hung up on it and just flow.
When I got back to skating in 2020 I pretty much filmed everything because I made so much progress and also was stoked to just being able to do it. Coming from the 90s where not many dudes had the equipment this was novel. I put together a few „parts“ demonstrating my progress which has been fun (also the editing part).
Then I hit a point where progress became much slower and it was more about getting more comfortable and consistent with the tricks I had, and yes, at my age, also trying not to lose tricks again. I did learn some new stuff but I have not filmed a clip in eight months. I just felt there was nothing really worth filming I had not already done. What‘s the point in filming another mediocre kickflip or slappy grind when I already have dozens of clips doing just that?
Plus my filmer aka wife got a bit tired of spending her weekends at desolate parking lots, schoolyards and industrial sites. So I just went out skating alone, every day. And it‘s nice.
At this point I am not even sure I am going to film anything anytime soon, although I am slowly getting fakie fs flips dialed so having proof of that would be nice.
Tl;dr short answer yes
Ya know, I feel you on this. Im only filming to see what im doing/whats wrong/needs to be adjusted. Filming mediocre shit is a pain in the butt.
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Been pushing myself to progress and recording a lot and it has me a burned out. I’m coming up on a year of doing this. Do y’all just skate for months sometimes without getting clips?
But then I land something rad and I'm like, "damn, wish that was recorded". I try not to get hung up on it and just flow.
When I got back to skating in 2020 I pretty much filmed everything because I made so much progress and also was stoked to just being able to do it. Coming from the 90s where not many dudes had the equipment this was novel. I put together a few „parts“ demonstrating my progress which has been fun (also the editing part).
Then I hit a point where progress became much slower and it was more about getting more comfortable and consistent with the tricks I had, and yes, at my age, also trying not to lose tricks again. I did learn some new stuff but I have not filmed a clip in eight months. I just felt there was nothing really worth filming I had not already done. What‘s the point in filming another mediocre kickflip or slappy grind when I already have dozens of clips doing just that?
Plus my filmer aka wife got a bit tired of spending her weekends at desolate parking lots, schoolyards and industrial sites. So I just went out skating alone, every day. And it‘s nice.
At this point I am not even sure I am going to film anything anytime soon, although I am slowly getting fakie fs flips dialed so having proof of that would be nice.
Tl;dr short answer yes
Thanks for replying. Part of me wanted to record every session so I could do one of those progress videos, but it’s boring. My skills don’t change drastically from session to session. It takes months to see noticeable improvements.
As the other poster above said, it is cool to see what you’re doing wrong, but after a certain point it becomes a distraction IMHO. I’m older too and the novelty has worn off lol
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learned how to do varial kickflips today, idk why but they always weirded me out. i hadn't skated in like a week so i told myself i gotta learn something new since i been slackin.
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skated with the homies
tried back smiths while my one homie did front smiths
i have this problem where my front truck's heelside wheel catches the ledge & i do this shitty tilted 50 grind - feelsbadman
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full body slammed off a two foot ledge doing back fifty - currently skating an 8.25 quasi on indie 139's for some stupid reason. dont wanna go out and buy proper fitting trucks, dont wanna go back to my 9.71 polar with ace standard 55's :(. after the slam, sat down, stared off into the distance, then started trying halfcab crooks on the same ledge. i think these trucks are really fuck my shit up because my board flips out almost everytime i pinch. my fakie flips are choice rn tho. am thinking about investing in thunder 148s but watching too much ben degros has convinced me that they will make my pop decrease. fuck my life
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Went to the schoolyard early and slammed warming up slipping out on a wet spot. Kept on and got my basics and then a very nice fakie fs flip, the newest addition to my shallow bag of flip tricks. Followed by two pretty decent fs 5-0 s on a very low ledge. Rounded of by a nice hi speed ollie up a low but long three stair to no pop ollie down the three on the other side, cue into the sunrise. Nice sesh overall.
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I had some downtime while visiting someone up north island (Campbell River) last weekend so I decided to check out the skatepark. Most of the obstacles were too big or were like bank to this and that style kinda park shit I hate but there were a few cool sections and obstacles I enjoyed. Mostly this mellow down ledge I got a few tricks on. Of course, front nose being one of them lol... I also overshot it into a front board once and ate shit incredibly hard. It was a nice place though. Amenities I'm not used to like a station to fill your water bottle with actual cold fresh water and even a frigging charging dock station for ya devices... The locals were all super chill too. I'm used to bad vibes at our local dumpster park but there were so many nice little kids chatting me up it was delightful. Some little dude maybe 13-14 politely came up to me and said "I don't mean to interrupt but I absolutely love your outfit" which kind of made my day despite it only being the "uniform" consisting of some skate baggy Levis pants I copped the other month and a fucking Kirkland Costco white XL white tee which are actually pretty good quality shirts. It was cool to answer their various questions though and ask my own. The first day I went I felt vibed out by the cool guys, but this second sesh I just couldn't stop smiling and trying to hype everyone up and interact with all the young folk and learn what they like and think is cool while sharing my own outdated opinions. It was a surprisingly pleasant session despite me not landing too many tricks. Hoping I can keep that same energy when I go back to my crusty local park full of snobby kooks.
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Pushed around a nearby neighbourhood I’d never explored for a hour looking for spots, found nothing. Gave me a whole new appreciation for what Chad Caruso’s doing. Dude’s fucking psycho man that would suck so much lol.
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Hit a bunch of random cuts on my cruiser and went over the new ground at waller for a bit. Maybe I'll do more this week, the weather's been nice lately.
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Back to my curb spot.
But it was sandblasted and repainted...I guess it's game on then.
Got it started going decently again w/ some wax and metal.
One on these days I'm gonna have to go somewhere else
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Been hunting down a diy and finally found it. No one had the mile marker… instead its like “3 miles past… green things, 5 of them, go behind…near that place..” incredibly beautiful location and really creative stuff to skate in the middle of nowhere bit close to my crib.
Ate shit 5 times in 15 minites. Almost hit my head 2x. Decided that im not skating a spot like that solo. Went home and iced up
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Last session was rushed because I had somewhere to be. Had to bounce right when it was getting good. Being a grown-up sucks.
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Skating rules. It’s so fun. I had two good sessions two days in a row which is rare with having a kid and other responsibilities. My last session was at the skatepark but it kind of got cut early because they had a little kid skate class going on. It was cute seeing kids doing the first pushes and stuff though.
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Just figured out proper fs flips, I'm in heaven
Stoked for you (and jealous). Now you have to tell us how to do them. ;)
Ty. You know tricks that land far to the side like tre's, it helped me a lot to heavily lean/jump to where it lands, like towards the nose of the board when it's mid trick, feels easier to follow and feel the nose to flick it, I do this for inward heels too.
Other than that I just needed to try harder. Front foot almost pointing forward, more body spin and fs pop shuv motion, and that feel of delay before flicking (and down'ish).
Front foot still stops a bit of the nose momentum but the tail goes around
I haven't been skating much cause of my broken finger but I tried fs flips again recently. Updated opinion:
Leaning to the side still helps, leaning back kinda helps too but it makes it hard to land back on the board, maybe the pop can fix it like if you scrape less but idk.
Stopped the forward pointing foot shit and it's easier now, guess it forced my torso to also point that way but that was all
On muska vs not, at first it was halfway and felt pretty good, it was flicking very little and early letting the bent 180 rotate freely, now flicking more and later made it common to land not fully rotated but it feels ok too, and in those cases a good flick is so important
I'm prefering the way it was before but it was inconsistent and I can't be picky
Other than fs flips I did some bs flips, lower and with much less effort than usual, but not rocket, good stuff
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25 minutes at the local park 2 weeks ago, after maybe skating 1 or 2 times in the last year and the 1st time in probably 8 months. I could still do front rocks, so I'm not complete shit at this point. My life makes me want to drive my car off a bridge, now that's complete shit... Maybe therapy will help today.
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Skated for the first time in about a month because we’ve had spotty weather in upstate ny and I’m trying to buy a house which has been a little stressful. bothered my friend to film a basic line yesterday, Shout out friends.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cr_YhgYpCy1/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== (https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cr_YhgYpCy1/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==)
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2.5 hours at the local
nothing was working well
continued back smith attempts. no makes
got a few back 270's on the qp, but fell so many times it didnt even feel good
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tried to skate in 73 degree weather with a beanie on, didn't end well. lol feel like dog shit now
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Yesterday i went to visit some friends in one other city. They are building a park there and after the work day we had the greatest skate session i had this year. I did one new trick (fs tail blunt on a super low flat bar) and did 2 tricks i havent done in more than 10 years (fs tail slide bigspin out of ledge and fs nose blunt on the low flat bar). I also filmed one line bs flip over the low flatbar, fakie nose grind 180 out on a ledge, crooked on a medium flat bar and a tre flip on flat. It is so good and motivating to skate with the good old fellas. I am super hyped :)
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Went to my local yesterday after work. Humid as hell but that didn't stop me. Decided to get some flatground in and finally started figuring out kickflips again. Heeflips were a battle and I got close but I just had a mental block and had to give it up after a while. Got a few grinds in before I did some fly outs out of the bowl when a couple of dudes show up. We all heckled some rando dude that was revving his clapped out Sentra around the parking lot. Before I left one of the guys filmed a Tik Tok that made him look like he was doing the Skate 3 speed glitch that made me laugh so hard. All in all, not a bad sesh.
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tre flips, bs flips, impossibles & tranny mostly
learned half cab disaster fakie & tried a bunch of fs tailslides on tranny
really need a new board, but am not willing to do a grip job & dont want to skate without a grip job, so ive resorted to skating my shit soggy board which is way overdue
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Empty b-ball court and paved bike path. Spent the morning pushing switch. Felt good in the mind/body. No room to get lost on the head. Kinda felt like riding a fixie
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Empty b-ball court and paved bike path. Spent the morning pushing switch. Felt good in the mind/body. No room to get lost on the head. Kinda felt like riding a fixie
Beautiful poem.
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Jumped the fence and skated the LA (Inglewood) pump track. Got an hour session before I got kicked out.
(https://i.postimg.cc/zGrH4tc2/IMG-8935.jpg)
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I got kinda smoked earlier. Like 3rd try. My usual grind. Back 5oh. Im not sure how but i got hung up trying to get out and went to butt then back then back of the head. Slow motion senior skater slam. I stuck it out but kept both trucks on the curb.
Later i was outside the shelter I tried to kickflip 90 to axle set as i arrived. Was gonna put it down bs and in one motion grab my rail and do like a walking half cab into the building to get a plate but I did like a forward flip and got stabbed credit card on my shin full pole vault up the curb. It was like my shin just sacked it because of how vertical the board was
I was thinking about slamming before I popped my tail too. Its just the freestyle walking bit was so clear in my mind I had to do it. There was mad people watching too.
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I got kinda smoked earlier. Like 3rd try. My usual grind. Back 5oh. Im not sure how but i got hung up trying to get out and went to butt then back then back of the head. Slow motion senior skater slam. I stuck it out but kept both trucks on the curb.
Later i was outside the shelter I tried to kickflip 90 to axle set as i arrived. Was gonna put it down bs and in one motion grab my rail and do like a walking half cab into the building to get a plate but I did like a forward flip and got stabbed credit card on my shin full pole vault up the curb. It was like my shin just sacked it because of how vertical the board was
I was thinking about slamming before I popped my tail too. Its just the freestyle walking bit was so clear in my mind I had to do it. There was mad people watching too.
Not trying to laugh about other peoples misfortune but picturing this I had to lol.
I‘ve been on holidays for the week and did not skate Monday to Friday so I was anxious I had lost everything because usually I skate everyday. Soon as I got home yesterday and after 5 hours on the road I hopped on the board and went to the parking lot to see if the basics were still there. To my great relief they were. Fun was had.
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Picked up a 7.75 for the first time since 99. Caught some slappy noseslides. Pretty chill. Solo sesh at the elementary school.
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with the homie
tried varial heels and front blunts
was a blast
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Slept 4 hours and went to some spots with my homie.
Got a Kickflip over a flat gap in about 20 tries. (board length, so nothing too crazy).
Accidentally deleted the clip. I am not sure if that is a sign or if I am just dumb. I mean, we all have seen enough Kickflips over flatgaps right?
I need more sleep.
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I skated both Saturday and Sunday this weekend - I usually only get one or the other.
Spent Saturday's session battling with a ledge for 2 hours. Originally was trying frontside nosegrind nollie shuv out, but called an audible and switched to frontside nosegrind front 180 out. Ended up getting a really clean one on film - first time I've 180'd out of a nosegrind in a long time, and I was stoked on the make.
I didn't sleep very well Saturday night, but Sunday's sesh at the local Team Pain park went surprisingly well despite this and the 2 hour ledge battle the previous day. I warmed up on the manny pad, then did some back 180s down the long/mellow 4 stair after realizing I was still feeling pretty springy. Yesterday was the first time doing anything besides an ollie down a stair set in a good while, nice little confidence boost. Ended up filming a few versions of a two piece line - started with a half cab manual on a down pad, finished with back 180 down the set. Spent the rest of the day eating pizza at the crib.
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Slept 4 hours and went to some spots with my homie.
Got a Kickflip over a flat gap in about 20 tries. (board length, so nothing too crazy).
Accidentally deleted the clip. I am not sure if that is a sign or if I am just dumb. I mean, we all have seen enough Kickflips over flatgaps right?
I need more sleep.
All clips have worth, if not to everyone else, at least to you. Gotta go back and get it again now :D
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Slept 4 hours and went to some spots with my homie.
Got a Kickflip over a flat gap in about 20 tries. (board length, so nothing too crazy).
Accidentally deleted the clip. I am not sure if that is a sign or if I am just dumb. I mean, we all have seen enough Kickflips over flatgaps right?
I need more sleep.
All clips have worth, if not to everyone else, at least to you. Gotta go back and get it again now :D
Thanks for the heads up mate, seriously. Maybe I can recover the clip from the SD card, I read that it can be done with some software.
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Really bad. Hot as hell. The park is turning into dogshit. Neglect, apathy, drinking and hard drug use. Idiots moving shit all over the place and fucking up the flow. People dropping off shitty obstacles everywhere. I need a new spot.
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Had a rough day, so I called up my homie whos just learning how to skate and we went to the curb spot. When we got there, there was this guy already there with a brand new world complete and a fresh pair of filas, and a speaker blasting shitty trap music. Im not to complain about beginners, but me and my homie got super weird vibes from this guy (almost double our age). Both my homie and this other guy are learning 5050s, my friend is slipping out of them, so other guy says "I think its your trucks," we both ignore the comment and hope hed get the message, he doesnt, and the next time my buddy doesnt lock into his 5050 the guy comes up to him looks him dead in the eye, and says "Its your trucks, theyre too worn down" (theyre not, brand new set of indys) so I let him know that was not the case, looking back was probably a dick about it. After that, he proceeds to sit down, pull out a plastic gatorade bottle makeshift bong, fill it with coke zero, and rips 4-6 bowls of gunk ass weed. He then gets onto his skateboard, and pushes around at full speed, stopping by razor tailing the shit out of his board. After 15 mins of that and one or two more bong rips, he then starts shadowbozxing trees and trying to do pullups on treebranches with his feet on the trunk, then starts pacing back and forth, attempts a few gainer flips, then picks up his skateboard and walks of.
Other than that sesh was great. My homie got some nice 5050s, more stoked on watching my homie progress than my own skating tbh
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Had a rough day, so I called up my homie whos just learning how to skate and we went to the curb spot. When we got there, there was this guy already there with a brand new world complete and a fresh pair of filas, and a speaker blasting shitty trap music. Im not to complain about beginners, but me and my homie got super weird vibes from this guy (almost double our age). Both my homie and this other guy are learning 5050s, my friend is slipping out of them, so other guy says "I think its your trucks," we both ignore the comment and hope hed get the message, he doesnt, and the next time my buddy doesnt lock into his 5050 the guy comes up to him looks him dead in the eye, and says "Its your trucks, theyre too worn down" (theyre not, brand new set of indys) so I let him know that was not the case, looking back was probably a dick about it. After that, he proceeds to sit down, pull out a plastic gatorade bottle makeshift bong, fill it with coke zero, and rips 4-6 bowls of gunk ass weed. He then gets onto his skateboard, and pushes around at full speed, stopping by razor tailing the shit out of his board. After 15 mins of that and one or two more bong rips, he then starts shadowbozxing trees and trying to do pullups on treebranches with his feet on the trunk, then starts pacing back and forth, attempts a few gainer flips, then picks up his skateboard and walks of.
Other than that sesh was great. My homie got some nice 5050s, more stoked on watching my homie progress than my own skating tbh
Move now. Sorry dude. I'm polite but he's making spot hot. Darnn sorry. Buy wax move on.
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skated only for like half an hour today, part cause of the broken finger, some days fs flip works some it doesn't. Today the flick was either stopping the board or not touching it at all. I gave up at some point and just practiced some back 180s and front pop shuvs for a while, basics I have but am not comfortable with
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Bittersweet.
It‘s a bank holiday so I went to a bank spot that is a bust on business days and had a good session but when I tried to ollie the hip as last trick I got smoked and probably almost broke a leg. Limping now but hope it‘ll be ok tomorrow.
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i was done skating for the day so needed to do a kickflip to leave but when i landed i landed like on my back toe kind of and my foot slipped out of my shoe and my toe caught on the pavement and it got twisted real hard.
That was like almost 4 weeks ago and it still hurts to bend it much. Super bummed cause it just turned springtime and nice to skate weather and I'm just benched. I've been skating a little bit here and there but I'm starting to think I fractured it instead of just twisted and I'm going to stay off the board for good just so I don't spend the rest of the year in a limbo state.
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Never ever go to a new skatepark 1 day after opening on a sunny holiday.. What was I thinking..
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I was hella excited about today. Big crew and skating street spots in Berlin. We were 9 guys, which is a bit too much for me usually. And I think the eggs in the morning were bad. Spent 1 hour on a public toilet and puked on the full Alexanderplatz. By the time I got to the spot, 6 guys were gone to another spot and only my two homies were still there. I don't know if a smaller crew is better for me or if my stomach felt better, but then everything was better for me. Even learned a new trick today, bs tail stall bs revert and filmed two little clips. Weird day but I was happy to be outside and skating. Starting to feel old in the legs.
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Went to try and hammer out a 360 flip on my lunch break. Started off on a whim, just tossing em out everywhere while I pushed around - on flat, out of a bank, into a bank, etc. Kinda thought I would catch a break and they would just work on something, but no dice. Felt pretty off the mark on most attempts.
Got frustrated easier than I should have, but the sun was super hot and I had hopes of snagging a quick on... ended up in a battle and had to stop to get back to work...
How often do you guys have workshop sessions vs go-to sessions? It's probably worth my time to incorporate both into more sessions, but the last thing I wanna do after shredding the park/spot is try and whiff a 360 flip....
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Went to try and hammer out a 360 flip on my lunch break. Started off on a whim, just tossing em out everywhere while I pushed around - on flat, out of a bank, into a bank, etc. Kinda thought I would catch a break and they would just work on something, but no dice. Felt pretty off the mark on most attempts.
Got frustrated easier than I should have, but the sun was super hot and I had hopes of snagging a quick on... ended up in a battle and had to stop to get back to work...
How often do you guys have workshop sessions vs go-to sessions? It's probably worth my time to incorporate both into more sessions, but the last thing I wanna do after shredding the park/spot is try and whiff a 360 flip....
I can relate to a lot of things in this post, especially battling tricks in the heat and racing the clock before/in the middle of work. I like the "workshop" versus "go-to" session distinction too - I think every skater knows the difference.
I skate primarily in the mornings before work. Up until recently, I have had a very "workshop" oriented attitude towards my morning sessions. I'll warm up somewhat quickly, then spend most of the session trying to perfect a challenging single trick or a combo of medium-difficulty tricks I've decided on while warming up.
Living in "workshop" mode has definitely re-honed my skills and helped me get back to my previous skate ability, but it is REALLY frustrating when things aren't working out. It can feel like I've pissed away my skate time if most of the session is just bails. I've been running up against this frustration more often than not lately, which is probably a sign I need to shift into more of a "go-to" perspective with my sessions and let things progress more organically.
To answer your question, I have more "workshop" sessions than "go-to" sessions personally, but I'm thinking I need to change my approach a bit.
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Omg guys I j Nollie treyed over the heathdrent but right when I landed it my filmer dropped camera and missed it then got ran over by car
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Omg guys I j Nollie treyed over the heathdrent but right when I landed it my filmer dropped camera and missed it then got ran over by car
Probably wasn't even first try smh
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Went to try and hammer out a 360 flip on my lunch break. Started off on a whim, just tossing em out everywhere while I pushed around - on flat, out of a bank, into a bank, etc. Kinda thought I would catch a break and they would just work on something, but no dice. Felt pretty off the mark on most attempts.
Got frustrated easier than I should have, but the sun was super hot and I had hopes of snagging a quick on... ended up in a battle and had to stop to get back to work...
How often do you guys have workshop sessions vs go-to sessions? It's probably worth my time to incorporate both into more sessions, but the last thing I wanna do after shredding the park/spot is try and whiff a 360 flip....
I skate primarily in the mornings before work. Up until recently, I have had a very "workshop" oriented attitude towards my morning sessions. I'll warm up somewhat quickly, then spend most of the session trying to perfect a challenging single trick or a combo of medium-difficulty tricks I've decided on while warming up.
Living in "workshop" mode has definitely re-honed my skills and helped me get back to my previous skate ability, but it is REALLY frustrating when things aren't working out. It can feel like I've pissed away my skate time if most of the session is just bails. I've been running up against this frustration more often than not lately, which is probably a sign I need to shift into more of a "go-to" perspective with my sessions and let things progress more organically.
To answer your question, I have more "workshop" sessions than "go-to" sessions personally, but I'm thinking I need to change my approach a bit.
For one year I had almost only go to sessions, then I realised I did not make progress (who would have thought but I am not the sharpest tool in the shed).
Now I have a schedule ( https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=125520.msg3967687#msg3967687 (https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=125520.msg3967687#msg3967687)) with only one pure go to day (flip day), opposed to one flatground workshop (new trick day), one flatbar day and one ledge day where I will do my go tos quickly but then try to get new stuff in these surroundings. Plus every Sunday I slappy.
So it‘s essentially one pure go to sesh against three workshops, one rest day, and one sesh (mostly on Saturdays) where I will go to different spots. This has turned out to be banks mostly. Plus slappy Sundays.
I’ve followed this routine now for three months and so far I added two flip tricks (before that I had three) and switch front 180s to my bag, and am getting close to bs lipslides on the flatbar. Also improved my bs 50/50 game on the ledges considerably.
Tl;dr workshop sessions are important for progress.
Edit: no sesh today as yesterday I twisted my leg.
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Went to try and hammer out a 360 flip on my lunch break. Started off on a whim, just tossing em out everywhere while I pushed around - on flat, out of a bank, into a bank, etc. Kinda thought I would catch a break and they would just work on something, but no dice. Felt pretty off the mark on most attempts.
Got frustrated easier than I should have, but the sun was super hot and I had hopes of snagging a quick on... ended up in a battle and had to stop to get back to work...
How often do you guys have workshop sessions vs go-to sessions? It's probably worth my time to incorporate both into more sessions, but the last thing I wanna do after shredding the park/spot is try and whiff a 360 flip....
I skate primarily in the mornings before work. Up until recently, I have had a very "workshop" oriented attitude towards my morning sessions. I'll warm up somewhat quickly, then spend most of the session trying to perfect a challenging single trick or a combo of medium-difficulty tricks I've decided on while warming up.
Living in "workshop" mode has definitely re-honed my skills and helped me get back to my previous skate ability, but it is REALLY frustrating when things aren't working out. It can feel like I've pissed away my skate time if most of the session is just bails. I've been running up against this frustration more often than not lately, which is probably a sign I need to shift into more of a "go-to" perspective with my sessions and let things progress more organically.
To answer your question, I have more "workshop" sessions than "go-to" sessions personally, but I'm thinking I need to change my approach a bit.
For one year I had almost only go to sessions, then I realised I did not make progress (who would have thought but I am not the sharpest tool in the shed).
Now I have a schedule ( https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=125520.msg3967687#msg3967687 (https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=125520.msg3967687#msg3967687)) with only one pure go to day (flip day), opposed to one flatground workshop (new trick day), one flatbar day and one ledge day where I will do my go tos quickly but then try to get new stuff in these surroundings. Plus every Sunday I slappy.
So it‘s essentially one pure go to sesh against three workshops, one rest day, and one sesh (mostly on Saturdays) where I will go to different spots. This has turned out to be banks mostly. Plus slappy Sundays.
I’ve followed this routine now for three months and so far I added two flip tricks (before that I had three) and switch front 180s to my bag, and am getting close to bs lipslides on the flatbar. Also improved my bs 50/50 game on the ledges considerably.
Tl;dr workshop sessions are important for progress.
Edit: no sesh today as yesterday I twisted my leg.
Hope your leg feels better man!
I dig the structure of your weekly skate routine - I might need to try something similar.
I skated a-frame/QP/a-frame park for the 3rd morning in a row. "Workshop" day, focused specifically on this line:
BS Flip a-frame - fakie pivot rock to fakie - Halfcab flip a-frame
The main thing I wanted to accomplish was a solid pop on both flip tricks - my half cab flips tend to become rocket flops when I focus too much on the turn from fakie. Landed a bunch of mediocre ones, then got one I liked. Did a few "go-to" lines with the remaining time I had.
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Drove around for awhile looking for some smooth, secluded pavement, that wasn’t in a wind tunnel, to post up and skate the box I just built. Ended up at the church near my place I passed on the first time around.
Realized that making the bottom of the box flat was dumb, because there’s too much surface contact with the ground for it to stay sturdy in place, so I’ll have to screw a couple wood strips on each end.
Skated for maybe half an hour, thought I was going to have a heart attack, and got sad that I’ve lost all muscle memory and can barely ollie anymore let alone pop into a grind. Hopefully it’ll start coming back to me.
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Last few sessions were rough. Did my best impression of Donny Barley in EE3 and lost a piece of front tooth after smashing my face on the ground. Got kinda lucky by not cracking it completely but damn, that scared the shit out of me. Hearing your own tooth crack on asphalt is pretty horrible. Following session took me to regain confidence and was not very exciting. Next session started off great but next thing I know I roll my weak ankle trying to 5-0 a round skatepark rail. What a fucking stupid idea, I had never done that trick before and should have known my limits. Hope to get back on board this week. Hope you guys can avoid injuries...
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Had a good initial start on some curbs, then some stairs, but as always couldn't handle my stupid desires and ended up retreating into a bush and beating my meat. Couldn't skate after that.
Fucks sake, this always happens
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Took my son to my local for skate school in the morning, followed by a quick 1 hour sesh where everyone else can skate the park. My day would usually finish there, but wifey is super into roller-skating at the moment so went to a street spot in the afternoon. Didn't think I'd be able to pull off two sessions (esp. with lunch in between) because I'm an old man, but the second sesh wasn't too bad either, got a second wind and had a lot of fun. Feeling extra decrepit today though...
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Haven't skated in a while so I took it easy, just rolling through the streets and doing a few kickturns on a nearby bank spot. Then I made the mistake of trying to cross some rail tracks and got pitched hard onto the pavement, scraping my elbow, knee, wrist, and bruising the palms of my hands. I spent a few minutes limping around in pain, feeling like an idiot who should have quit years ago. Once the kneecap pain wore off enough that I could push again, I managed to do a boardslide on a double-sided curb and decided that qualified as a victory, so I headed home. Now the real soreness has set in and I'm hobbling around, wincing anytime I have to sit down or stand up. I should be ready to skate again sometime in 2027.
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This weekend we had this annual city festival of the humour and satire. There was a march with crazy costumes and big puppets making fun of politicians. The evening there was a show of ice mc and 2 unlimited :) crazy shit over here, it was like the summer of 95 haha now about the session - on saturday some people from Stinky socks were here (coz the owners are from this city and the team is currently on a bulgarian tour) and we had a session together. Shredmaster Keith was with the team and it was nice to watch some quality skating live. I did one line and their camerman asked me to film it, but when we started filming i kind of stuck and didn't do it after 100 tries. This was a bummer but the next morning when i was skating, i kind of did the line (but changed one of the tricks). A friend filmed it with a phone and i decide to collect some clips for my 40 birthday. In the evening i had 2nd session for the day with the local youth and filmed 3 more clips and got a dopamine rush. Today i am paying the price for the intense weekend skating and my body is fuckin sore.
edit: grammar
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Been trying full cab flips on the hip on and off for the past few sessions. Yesterday I happened to land one sorta quick but it was kinda sketch, so I set my camera up to try and redo it and ended up wasting so much time to no avail. I'm exhausted the morning after but now I have a one track mind to go try it some more, haha.
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Due to work and family obligations and not having a board i haven’t been able to skate for a month. Had to have my warm up sesh with brand new cupsoles and spent an hour breaking them in skating flat but felt terrible.
Next day was raining but I had the day off so I went out to the closest bridged area, found a ~15’ corridor of dry flatground and skated flat for like three hours at a pretty mellow pace. Had a great time. Shoes still nowhere near broken in but I had my board control back and felt like I made some progress on my staples. One of those days where you feel great about skating.
Was feeling really good walking home. Headed down a pretty dark, quiet backstreet not really paying that much attention to the guy walking across the street. I cross to stop at a deli and we’re about five feet away from each other but I haven’t really taken a good gander at him. He jumps into a power stance and goes “what are you doing back over here?!?” I look at him and see him brandishing a fuckin machete, my brain stops for a tenth of a second and I turn around and fuckin bolt the other way, backpack and all. I hear him laughing and yelling “it’s fake it’s fake”, I turn around and he’s bending it on the ground and I run back over and we immediately both start fucking dying laughing and dapping each other up. He found it just lying on the ground like thirty feet away and picked it up for fun. I can’t explain it but the adrenal dump and sense of relief from not dying in a machete attack made it the funniest thing ever even though I hate shitty pranks like that. Hope to run into him again one day assuming he doesn’t get shot by the police
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For months, I looked forward to skating a dope ass park while on a work trip. Got there and it was empty. 20 mins into the session and my small toe on front foot is throbbing. I was in town for a week and couldn’t skate because of the pain. Fucking lame.
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Apparently I've been making enemies this week....
Last Friday I was skating around while my SO was walking the baby in the stroller. I take an offshoot to ride this rock spot consisting of 3 rock gaps in a row. I was doing this small line of wallie up the rock to kickflip this "hip". I get a few tries in and notice this guy walking with intent to the spot. I take another run, miss the kickflip and push down the road cause I surely didn't want to talk to him. He calls out "HEY COME HERE", I look back all skeptical and keep riding away. The guy is actively following me now telling me to stop. So I rubberneck and give him the double middle fingers and snake away through the neighborhood.
The next day, damn near the same spot, this kid says he hopes I eat shit. So I tell him "I hope you watch your mom get fucked tonight".
Then, yesterday, at the local park, this chick who's getting half decent at skating gets on my shit about "you're riding the park so much better than me! what the fuck, you're just better than everyone?!" Idk wtf that was about, not sure if was taking her lines or cutting her off accidentally, but damn bro, I'm not gonna slow down just cause you can't keep up. Or if was being snakey and didn't realize, be straight up and tell me to watch out.
I also tried to front blunt a Target complete mini HotWheels board ala Chris Haslam. I don't even know how to FS Blunt....
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Had a late night sesh in the freezing cold last night, wanted to learn some new things but did fuck all because my anxiety got the best of me and then I'm pretty sure I broke my toe doing a fs pop shuv on flat.. A trick I usually have on lock too lmao, landed right on my toes and one bent the wrong way.
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Still practicing fs flips when I can. Too shove-y? but it feels p good not to power slide half the trick.
I need to lean back less, but without fucking the trick up which is the problem. Landing far to the side doesn't bother me.
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Swept up a bunch of chalky sandy shit at the park and mooched drinks from the young bucks. Everyone was skating hard it was a good session overall. A crew of 3 little kids with skateboards rolled up and were cheering everyone on for basically every trick they landed it was funny and cool to see but they had a bag of spitz and left a pile of sunflower seed shells all over the place :(
Still ain't got tailslides to regs but can basically lock in every time now and just slip out to fakie or stick. I know I could do them to fakie but then I got no trick switch or fakie backside on the end of the ledge... My shoulders are stupid and won't listen. Gonna get one this evening though. Locked into a Nikolai Piombo fs 5-0 by accident too it felt pretty cool.
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Went to skatepark. Had nice sesh. Then made my body very sore trying to get a dialed in 360 flip on flat for like 1hr lol. Got it tho..
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Just spent a few hr mostly pushing switch. Kick turns both bs and fs. Kinda powerslides
Feels real good to learn a whole new side of movement
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Went to the park because it’s the closest rain spot, tried to warm up, five minutes in and some kid is looking around the benches with his phone flashlight. Asks me if I’ve seen some car keys. I say no and start helping him and his friends look for the keys. After checking the perimeter of the park and seating areas I was kinda thinking wtf am I supposed to do now just skate around the park with my phone flashlight. Did just that, I felt bad because they were teenagers and it was supposedly gonna be $450 for the replacement, had to show some sympathy for him and they seemed nice. I only had about an hour to skate and I was like 20mins deep at this point. I start trying to skate a little bit and give up on the keys because I don’t want to waste my session. Felt like a very demoralizing move because I pretty much acknowledged defeat in that moment. The guys kept looking for like another half hour. The actual (former) key holder had started throwing tantrums at that point, banging his board on the rails and yelling swear words (no judgment I would probably do the same and you never know peoples financial situations) so I kinda act oblivious and deaf. They end up leaving when I’m texting (I guess it was in the car or something). I’m relieved and skate around and notice someone TOOK THE FUCKKNG TOP OF ONE OF THE BOXES OFF IN THE FIVE MINUTES I WAS SMOKING AND TEXTING MY BOO THANG. I WAS LIKE FIFTEEN FEET AWAY
After they left I randomly popped the best feeling kick flip of my life randomly, just set up crouched and blasted it as high as I can Ollie, flicked like straight up caught it coming up just like the best flick I’ve ever had in my life and I just underrotated it a bit and stomped it early because I wasn’t even prepared for it to go that high. It was amazing and cyrusesque. I just left after because I wanted to go out on a good note and I didn’t even care if I didn’t actually get it
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
As long as you don't feel noticeably worse the day after you should be good to go. Any movement that doesn't
aggravate the symptoms is generally a good thing and will aid the healing process.
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Skated the chill 10 degree bank at my local for 45 mins, got a couple new makes on it...why are bigspins so easy on flat but such a headf**k on a bank lol?
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
As long as you don't feel noticeably worse the day after you should be good to go. Any movement that doesn't
aggravate the symptoms is generally a good thing and will aid the healing process.
Thanks bro.
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
As long as you don't feel noticeably worse the day after you should be good to go. Any movement that doesn't
aggravate the symptoms is generally a good thing and will aid the healing process.
Sorry to hear your ankle is injured. I have to disagree with the previous post. Worst decision I have ever made regarding physical health was to not let my rolled ankle heal properly when I was 15 years old. I skated switch all the time, it didnt hurt, but the ankle never really healed. My ligaments are superloose ever since. Give it a lot of rest is my advice.
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So the park that I normally frequent is situated behind this Minor League baseball stadium that only has one way in and out and apparently there was some sort of gas line explosion like 15 minutes before I rolled up so both entrances were blocked by police cruisers. Said fuck it and decided to drive towards a park that was about 10 miles away.
Show up at the other park and start going through my flatground tricks. My board is pretty flimsy and I can feel it flex when trying nollie tricks. I had watched Patrick Praman's rough cut before leaving the house so I started working on getting my nollie back heels like his. Got super close to one but got major wheel bite. On the next go, I popped it, caught it perfectly and tried to stomp it and broke the nose clean through.
Luckily I had an extra board in the car that was in slightly better shape than the one I broke. Switched it out and went back into the park. The "n" word crew that I mentioned in the nickname thread are now there. Went back to trying the nollie back heel and got it in about 10 tries. Shortly after this, a few black dudes rolled up and started rolling around the park. The "n" word crew didn't bother to tone down their BS and got called out hard by one of the black dudes. They were all pretty quiet after that. Hopefully they learned their lesson.
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
As long as you don't feel noticeably worse the day after you should be good to go. Any movement that doesn't
aggravate the symptoms is generally a good thing and will aid the healing process.
Sorry to hear your ankle is injured. I have to disagree with the previous post. Worst decision I have ever made regarding physical health was to not let my rolled ankle heal properly when I was 15 years old. I skated switch all the time, it didnt hurt, but the ankle never really healed. My ligaments are superloose ever since. Give it a lot of rest is my advice.
I agree there. Did the same when I was 16 and my right ankle just feels weird on some days. And I usually wear a ankle brace when I skate.
@devils acrobat are you doing some kind of exercises to strenghten the ankle?
@Easy Slider get well soon and search the internet for good exercises
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Cheers bruhs.
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Just spent a few hr mostly pushing switch. Kick turns both bs and fs. Kinda powerslides
Feels real good to learn a whole new side of movement
Man I attempted this last night and fell pushing switch twice, laughed and then gave up. Swongo for life... Thankfully no one was there. I mean I probably wouldn't have even tried it if other people were there. Worked on all the pop shove variations switch reg fakie nollie. Got one booty ass tail slide to regular to tictac then worked on trying to front nose a whole block (10-15 feet?) on the ledge til it got dark.
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Just spent a few hr mostly pushing switch. Kick turns both bs and fs. Kinda powerslides
Feels real good to learn a whole new side of movement
Man I attempted this last night and fell pushing switch twice, laughed and then gave up. Swongo for life... Thankfully no one was there. I mean I probably wouldn't have even tried it if other people were there. Worked on all the pop shove variations switch reg fakie nollie. Got one booty ass tail slide to regular to tictac then worked on trying to front nose a whole block (10-15 feet?) on the ledge til it got dark.
Ive been at it a couple weeks now and the pushing and cruising is getting easier. Its how im starting every session. Its a nice way to warm up, actually waking up my tired ass right leg as skating goofy is like doing a ton of 1 legged semi-squats. To avoid the skating like a 38 year old grom getting in everyones way at the spot, i just got push around town, fortunate to have a paved bike path for part of it.
I really just want to get proficient and comfortable enough to do various 180s and slides and continue going forward at speed, continuing to push in either stance without having to revert back to regs while skating around. I never even spent time trying to learn switch tricks in the past, so its all brand new and fun as shit
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Took my son out for an event here last weekend where the city closes off a street from all bus/car traffic and encourage people to come out and ride bikes, skate, roller skate, etc..We pushed for a good long time and checked it out before heading back home. Went and skated "my" curb spot and had surprisingly good session. Thought my legs would be dead.
Woke up on Sun not really all that sore, super surprising for my old ass. Went on the hunt for new flatground/curb spot as the building where "my" curb spot is re-painted the curb red on back to back weekends. Funny enough they either didn't see the 3 other waxed up curbs I have going there but it's starting to feel like the block is hot...so to speak
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Pushing switch always felt ok to me, but just pushing
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
As long as you don't feel noticeably worse the day after you should be good to go. Any movement that doesn't
aggravate the symptoms is generally a good thing and will aid the healing process.
Sorry to hear your ankle is injured. I have to disagree with the previous post. Worst decision I have ever made regarding physical health was to not let my rolled ankle heal properly when I was 15 years old. I skated switch all the time, it didnt hurt, but the ankle never really healed. My ligaments are superloose ever since. Give it a lot of rest is my advice.
I agree there. Did the same when I was 16 and my right ankle just feels weird on some days. And I usually wear a ankle brace when I skate.
@devils acrobat are you doing some kind of exercises to strenghten the ankle?
@Easy Slider get well soon and search the internet for good exercises
I appreciate you guys' anecdotes and I'm sorry you're continuing to experience discomfort. I've got a bit of experience in this field (5+ years of coaching multi-sport athletes), so I'd like to elaborate my point a little more:
Scientific data very clearly shows that zero movement is not the way to go in terms of recovery. This line of thinking has been outdated for decades by now, the overwhelming consensus is that movement aids recovery - as long as the intensity doesn't exceed the body's current limits (I can point to literally dozens of metaanalyses if you guys are into scientific literature at all). I think that's where you guys' experience might have turned so negative. I probably wasn't clear enough about that in my initial post, but I did state Easy should avoid overdoing it. What that exactly means is very individual and can't be generalized. Symptoms can vary greatly even with something as basic as an ankle roll, so it's not helpful to make blanket statements about which type of skating would be ok and which wouldn't. Of course one should proceed with caution and err on the safe side, but I've got to know Easy as very reasonable person on here, so I figured that was a given. I wasn't trying to downplay any injuries, and I didn't mean to encourage anybody to overstrain themselves after getting hurt. Nonetheless, as long as the symptoms aren't exacerbated by it, movement, of which skating is one, is a net positive.
@Easy Slider Here's a very good, comprehensive article on the subject by a source I can vouch for: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/how-to-manage-an-ankle-sprain/
Hope you're shredding again in no time!
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
As long as you don't feel noticeably worse the day after you should be good to go. Any movement that doesn't
aggravate the symptoms is generally a good thing and will aid the healing process.
Sorry to hear your ankle is injured. I have to disagree with the previous post. Worst decision I have ever made regarding physical health was to not let my rolled ankle heal properly when I was 15 years old. I skated switch all the time, it didnt hurt, but the ankle never really healed. My ligaments are superloose ever since. Give it a lot of rest is my advice.
I agree there. Did the same when I was 16 and my right ankle just feels weird on some days. And I usually wear a ankle brace when I skate.
@devils acrobat are you doing some kind of exercises to strenghten the ankle?
@Easy Slider get well soon and search the internet for good exercises
I appreciate you guys' anecdotes and I'm sorry you're continuing to experience discomfort. I've got a bit of experience in this field (5+ years of coaching multi-sport athletes), so I'd like to elaborate my point a little more:
Scientific data very clearly shows that zero movement is not the way to go in terms of recovery. This line of thinking has been outdated for decades by now, the overwhelming consensus is that movement aids recovery - as long as the intensity doesn't exceed the body's current limits (I can point to literally dozens of metaanalyses if you guys are into scientific literature at all). I think that's where you guys' experience might have turned so negative. I probably wasn't clear enough about that in my initial post, but I did state Easy should avoid overdoing it. What that exactly means is very individual and can't be generalized. Symptoms can vary greatly even with something as basic as an ankle roll, so it's not helpful to make blanket statements about which type of skating would be ok and which wouldn't. Of course one should proceed with caution and err on the safe side, but I've got to know Easy as very reasonable person on here, so I figured that was a given. I wasn't trying to downplay any injuries, and I didn't mean to encourage anybody to overstrain themselves after getting hurt. Nonetheless, as long as the symptoms aren't exacerbated by it, movement, of which skating is one, is a net positive.
@Easy Slider Here's a very good, comprehensive article on the subject by a source I can vouch for: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/how-to-manage-an-ankle-sprain/
Hope you're shredding again in no time!
Cheers my friend and thanks for the nice words - not sure they are true, tho. I had a flatbar session and think I did a bit too much. It's hard to stay reasonable as I am used to persevere until I get a trick. Now I am forced to stop when I feel the foot has had enough for the day even if I am not where I wanted to be. I know it's the only way and will stick to flatground mannies and low level curb / flatbar action.
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
https://skateboardstrength.com/ankle-guide-for-skateboarders/
This program definitely helped me when i hurt my tendons a couple of weeks ago.
as for my last session i did one manual at a super crusty spot and later i got the varial heel almost every try when using the nose as a tail. Now the weather got shitty and it is gonna be rainy for a week.
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Does popping my kiddo in his joggy stroller and shaloming over to 7-11 count? Cuz it was pretty rad
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
As long as you don't feel noticeably worse the day after you should be good to go. Any movement that doesn't
aggravate the symptoms is generally a good thing and will aid the healing process.
Sorry to hear your ankle is injured. I have to disagree with the previous post. Worst decision I have ever made regarding physical health was to not let my rolled ankle heal properly when I was 15 years old. I skated switch all the time, it didnt hurt, but the ankle never really healed. My ligaments are superloose ever since. Give it a lot of rest is my advice.
I agree there. Did the same when I was 16 and my right ankle just feels weird on some days. And I usually wear a ankle brace when I skate.
@devils acrobat are you doing some kind of exercises to strenghten the ankle?
@Easy Slider get well soon and search the internet for good exercises
Damn, hadn't seen the mention until now, sorry for the delayed reply. I am also skating with a bracelet on. I have tried many things in my mid 30ies but never made a full-on effort to strengthen it to the point where I would feel safe. Maybe I should get into it again with the advice posted here. Are you doing something @fs1/2cab
Also big @Scab for the detailed response. The way you explained it makes a lot of sense, I guess many people overdo it during recovery just like myself.
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Does popping my kiddo in his joggy stroller and shaloming over to 7-11 count? Cuz it was pretty rad
Yo 100% it does
Anytime you get to push if you have stroller age kids is a gift
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I got kinda smoked earlier. Like 3rd try. My usual grind. Back 5oh. Im not sure how but i got hung up trying to get out and went to butt then back then back of the head. Slow motion senior skater slam. I stuck it out but kept both trucks on the curb.
Later i was outside the shelter I tried to kickflip 90 to axle set as i arrived. Was gonna put it down bs and in one motion grab my rail and do like a walking half cab into the building to get a plate but I did like a forward flip and got stabbed credit card on my shin full pole vault up the curb. It was like my shin just sacked it because of how vertical the board was
I was thinking about slamming before I popped my tail too. Its just the freestyle walking bit was so clear in my mind I had to do it. There was mad people watching too.
Not trying to laugh about other peoples misfortune but picturing this I had to lol.
I‘ve been on holidays for the week and did not skate Monday to Friday so I was anxious I had lost everything because usually I skate everyday. Soon as I got home yesterday and after 5 hours on the road I hopped on the board and went to the parking lot to see if the basics were still there. To my great relief they were. Fun was had.
I giggled a bit too. I love walking like I'm still skating.
I wanna be like the Ishod of walking fancy.
All low and snapping my fingers like I'm in Westside Story and shit.
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with the homie
tried varial heels and front blunts
was a blast
I'd like to see you mix those tricks. That would be sick.
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Had an epic 30 minute session at the pier while the sun was setting a couple days ago. Got a nice kickflip, pop shove and bs 180 over these grate things while some hippie lady was hand drumming to Stairway to Heaven on her Bluetooth speaker lol. Got my noseslide tricks on the benches then peaced out victoriously. Gotta quit when you're ahead sometimes.
I must have gotten some shit in my eye when I was sweeping the skatepark the other day cause it was bugging me for a day or two after and yesterday I woke up with my eye full of blood and just oozing shit. Doctor said my eye is scratched but not on the cornea at least and have to take a few days off cause it's really uncomfortable and I don't want to make it any worse. Sucks cause I was on a roll skating everyday and feeling like my basic tricks were improving. Now I'm looking like Forest Whitaker with a bloody eye.
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Filmed a couple of the homies doing grinds on a 50" flatscreen TV propped up with sandbags, amazingly no one got destroyed and a few tricks were put down...TV stood up to it quite well.
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Had a decent session at the park mostly relearning tricks i’ve lost but recently learned frontside 5-0s on transition and have been feeling more comfortable holding frontside grinds a bit longer now too which is super satisfying.
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Tried to skate after I twisted/bruised my ankle last thursday. Turns out I can pop but not flick. I am bummed because I feel it‘s going to take a while to heal up. On the other hand at least I can manny, slappy, and do some low level grinds and slides (all my grinds and slides are low level anyway).
Now the question: is it ok to skate with this ankle aka will it still fully heal if I continue to skate or should I take a full break instead to speed up the healing process?
As long as you don't feel noticeably worse the day after you should be good to go. Any movement that doesn't
aggravate the symptoms is generally a good thing and will aid the healing process.
Sorry to hear your ankle is injured. I have to disagree with the previous post. Worst decision I have ever made regarding physical health was to not let my rolled ankle heal properly when I was 15 years old. I skated switch all the time, it didnt hurt, but the ankle never really healed. My ligaments are superloose ever since. Give it a lot of rest is my advice.
I agree there. Did the same when I was 16 and my right ankle just feels weird on some days. And I usually wear a ankle brace when I skate.
@devils acrobat are you doing some kind of exercises to strenghten the ankle?
@Easy Slider get well soon and search the internet for good exercises
Damn, hadn't seen the mention until now, sorry for the delayed reply. I am also skating with a bracelet on. I have tried many things in my mid 30ies but never made a full-on effort to strengthen it to the point where I would feel safe. Maybe I should get into it again with the advice posted here. Are you doing something @fs1/2cab
Also big @scab for the detailed response. The way you explained it makes a lot of sense, I guess many people overdo it during recovery just like myself.
There is this guy I watch on Youtube, the daily push. He has pretty good exercises for all sorts of pain. I was also really sceptical about yoga, but then I tried a few things and it really makes a difference. And also when I lay in bed, I rotate my ankles like 50 times with a left turn, 50 times with a right turn, 50 times up and down and stuff like that. If there are specific spots that feel a bit weak, I look up that guy skateboard strenght on insta or use google.
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Made an honest attempt to skate faster and grind longer.
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Does popping my kiddo in his joggy stroller and shaloming over to 7-11 count? Cuz it was pretty rad
Anytime you get to push if you have stroller age kids is a gift
He loves it too. We fly the wrong way down a one way street they just paved. I can unlock his front wheel and do the shalom train. Grab a couple Squisheez and glide around town a bit.
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Practiced hardflips, it was a very fucking good idea to do that after sorta learning 'proper' fs flips, landed a few not even rolling away, but it felt so much better than the ones I've rarely landed in the past.
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My ankle is still bruised so I stick to slappies. During all Winter I was slappying a slanted high lacquered curb of quite soft concrete. These days I went back to two other curbs, lower, more vertical and harder stone. It‘s crazy how much of a difference it makes and I am having a hard time readapting to those curbs even tho I actually learned slappies on those.
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I had my last session for a couple of weeks (vacation) this morning at a-frame/QP park.
I came in with a "workshop" mentality to get the following line:
-Tre flip
-Rock fakie
-Fakie bigflip
Ended up filming a solid make in about 10 minutes, which is somewhat quick for me.
I spent the rest of the time in "go-to" mode, stringing together some lines and pushing my cardio a bit.
I got "do a kickflip"-ed by two guys walking through the park and successfully obliged. Felt pretty cool.
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I had my last session for a couple of weeks (vacation) this morning at a-frame/QP park.
I came in with a "workshop" mentality to get the following line:
-Tre flip
-Rock fakie
-Fakie bigflip
Ended up filming a solid make in about 10 minutes, which is somewhat quick for me.
I spent the rest of the time in "go-to" mode, stringing together some lines and pushing my cardio a bit.
I got "do a kickflip"-ed by two guys walking through the park and successfully obliged. Felt pretty cool.
Balanced as all things should be.
I found this fun hip at the local for "cheating" handplants.
Its a large, steep QP that cuts down to a lil mellow 2 footer, but there's a small hip that transitions out in a way that you can plant the hand and basically ride the invent up the larger QP and flick it into the stall. I found find the apex and was fully upside down on this tiny little ramp. Felt silly but helped turn the lightbulb on with some of the aspects of the trick.
Been doing BS Boneless to back disaster too. That's a fun one.
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Did my first kickflip since my ankle injury two weeks ago. First try but felt it is too early for flips. Got to be patient.
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I been heavily inspired by the goat mouth this week.
Hafcab crooks back 80 is coming.
Im trying to capture back 80 fakie 5oh fakie shuvs.
Super hard to film one alone. People be fucking messing with my shit.
It makes me crazy then I get in can get into any trick but can land a 5oh mode from frustration with the huge tours that walk by.
I'm going to make a sign that says
HEY DO A
KICKFLIP?
KICKFLIPS ARE
$10
IMPOSSIBLE FOR $5
Big spins for a buck.
Why am I gonna kill myself primo for your larvae who are trying to pick my stuff up off the ground?
The last few days has been difficult. I quit juul two days ago. Has me hearing music that never goes away. Inner monologue that causes the ground to shake
I think on the war and the fascist coming out the closet all over the place.
My skating is frickin exploding tho. I feel really strong but I'm definitely not feeling my clips. I gotta figure out a way to film better and more.
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I been heavily inspired by the goat mouth this week.
Hafcab crooks back 80 is coming.
Im trying to capture back 80 fakie 5oh fakie shuvs.
Super hard to film one alone. People be fucking messing with my shit.
It makes me crazy then I get in can get into any trick but can land a 5oh mode from frustration with the huge tours that walk by.
I'm going to make a sign that says
HEY DO A
KICKFLIP?
KICKFLIPS ARE
$10
IMPOSSIBLE FOR $5
Big spins for a buck.
Why am I gonna kill myself primo for your larvae who are trying to pick my stuff up off the ground?
The last few days has been difficult. I quit juul two days ago. Has me hearing music that never goes away. Inner monologue that causes the ground to shake
I think on the war and the fascist coming out the closet all over the place.
My skating is frickin exploding tho. I feel really strong but I'm definitely not feeling my clips. I gotta figure out a way to film better and more.
where can i find your clips
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Did my first kickflip since my ankle injury two weeks ago. First try but felt it is too early for flips. Got to be patient.
Yes please let it heal properly my friend. That was about the extent of my session yesterday though. Took my son to a playground beside the skatepark and brought my board incase I felt the urge. Ollied the 3 stair at his elementary school and did a flat ground kickflip but it felt good still. My bloody eye looks like it's getting worse though so going to a filthy dusty skatepark doesn't seem conducive to healing. Considering rocking an eyepatch even... Probably hard to skate if you're not used to that. I ain't no Sheldon Meleshinski..
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Back in the place i grew up skating and am tired from jetlag/time change/lack of sleep. My legs feel like that hard film on top of a bowl of jello cuz ive sat so much and not been doing my leg workouts. Humidity has me smoked as well. So i went out to skate and just pushed across the city. Clocked about 8 miles cruising. Really didnt do much else other than go 180s, pivots, and powerslides, going from regular to goofy/switch. It was cool push fast across a night time city street with fresh black top amd 180 into goofy to ride switch down a smaller hill that has 2 curves onto different streets.
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I’ve been hit by some virus, I just want to sleep all day long. Went to get a session before work, see if that would get my juices flowing.
Tried switch 360 flips for about a half an hour, went back home to take a nap.
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Did my first nosegrind in years in under 20 minutes. Got super stoked and tried a switch 180 5-0, slipped out, caught myself with my trailing arm and when I fell, felt a pop in my shoulder. Feels bad man
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15 minutes in i slipped out on a BS flip during my lunch break, went down on both elbows and jammed my fingers into the floor.
Good times! Landed a couple in revenge before I called it a day.
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15 minutes in i slipped out on a BS flip during my lunch break, went down on both elbows and jammed my fingers into the floor.
Good times! Landed a couple in revenge before I called it a day.
I slammed onto my fingers yesterday also
Went to float over this chunky spine, over shot it and stuck my hands out to catch myself. Except my fingertips folded in and i took it straight to the top of my nails. That one sucked
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I've been going out almost every day to skate since the snow melted in April.
I try to break my sessions up into one morning session to cruise around and skate ramps, taking it easy, and then one evening session where I push myself to skate harder. It's too hot outside during the afternoon, usually.
Also trying to stack clips for one last video part, taking it seriously. I've got a few clips that I don't even want to post on insta just because I'd like to save everything for the part and not have anyone bite my shit because I'm really that important.
Today (this morning), I clipped up and it felt good. Drove home and was smiling. It was a trick that I thought would be easy but turned out to be way harder than I thought to land clean.
I've been thinking of revamping my skate schedule where I optimally skate five days a week, four of those days only focused on a trick I want to film, and one day being free where I just cruise around and do whatever.
That might sound too rigid and formulaic, but I'm honestly really happy when I get a clip of a trick I'm busting my ass on, and I feel like it'll be the best approach with the weather/my age/my schedule/my goals.
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I've been going out almost every day to skate since the snow melted in April.
I try to break my sessions up into one morning session to cruise around and skate ramps, taking it easy, and then one evening session where I push myself to skate harder. It's too hot outside during the afternoon, usually.
Also trying to stack clips for one last video part, taking it seriously. I've got a few clips that I don't even want to post on insta just because I'd like to save everything for the part and not have anyone bite my shit because I'm really that important.
Today (this morning), I clipped up and it felt good. Drove home and was smiling. It was a trick that I thought would be easy but turned out to be way harder than I thought to land clean.
I've been thinking of revamping my skate schedule where I optimally skate five days a week, four of those days only focused on a trick I want to film, and one day being free where I just cruise around and do whatever.
That might sound too rigid and formulaic, but I'm honestly really happy when I get a clip of a trick I'm busting my ass on, and I feel like it'll be the best approach with the weather/my age/my schedule/my goals.
Respect the plight
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I've had a bit of a week. Hung out with some friends after work. Got back home and decided I could use a slice and a drink. Bombed a hill that I love. Sometimes it's the simple things that can ease your mind.
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I been heavily inspired by the goat mouth this week.
Hafcab crooks back 80 is coming.
Im trying to capture back 80 fakie 5oh fakie shuvs.
Super hard to film one alone. People be fucking messing with my shit.
It makes me crazy then I get in can get into any trick but can land a 5oh mode from frustration with the huge tours that walk by.
I'm going to make a sign that says
HEY DO A
KICKFLIP?
KICKFLIPS ARE
$10
IMPOSSIBLE FOR $5
Big spins for a buck.
Why am I gonna kill myself primo for your larvae who are trying to pick my stuff up off the ground?
The last few days has been difficult. I quit juul two days ago. Has me hearing music that never goes away. Inner monologue that causes the ground to shake
I think on the war and the fascist coming out the closet all over the place.
My skating is frickin exploding tho. I feel really strong but I'm definitely not feeling my clips. I gotta figure out a way to film better and more.
where can i find your clips
No real clips today.
I sometimes do ig and yt stories.
Dustwardprez is my away from slap
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Pretty fun, I learnt frontside 5-0 roll ins into a small bowl which I have trying to g myself up to learn forever. I had a major commitment issue with em but I randomly did one accidentally and then just did a bunch afterwards on purpose. I only got a scratch on the grind part but now I have the confidence to do them at all i'll be able to work up to getting some really fast and long ones.
Also got backside roll-ins into some bigger transition which was another thing I'd been too scared to do for a while... frontside is easy for me but backside spooks me until I do it and it's not scary anymore. So that opens up the possibilities for new lines, stoked on that
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Trying to learn how to skate with an eyepatch. Got a little fs feeble grind to fakie on a tiny noping quarter pipe. Bs and fs tail stall also. Mostly just sat on my ass and smoked a huge joint and drank a gin grapefruit drink while I escaped my demon children for an hour. Was nice.
More one-eye progress today. Got the old signature front nose and locked in and slid a few fakie ollie bs tail/switch front nose whatever you call them. Think I should be able to get that trick with a bit of persistence and maybe some depth perception would help lol...
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Fuckin summer help trying throwing their weight around at one of my spots I been skating for about a year .
Tells me
No drugs no homeless sleeping no skatebloards
I'm at war now
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i am so gd close to getting frontside 5050s on transition. feel like ive been trying to get comfortable enough to do them for the last two years
also the sound the trucks make when i hit a frontside slash is like pavlovs bell. releases a tiny bit of dopamine.
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I rotated my bushings and was tripping out about my board for about an hour.
But I front boarded a rail and back 50d a ledge. Two things I’m god awful at
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with the homies
vheels and tailslides on banks
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Trying to learn how to skate with an eyepatch. Got a little fs feeble grind to fakie on a tiny noping quarter pipe. Bs and fs tail stall also. Mostly just sat on my ass and smoked a huge joint and drank a gin grapefruit drink while I escaped my demon children for an hour. Was nice.
More one-eye progress today. Got the old signature front nose and locked in and slid a few fakie ollie bs tail/switch front nose whatever you call them. Think I should be able to get that trick with a bit of persistence and maybe some depth perception would help lol...
It must be awkward skating with one eye because you basically lose a dimension. On the other hand you certainly look super gnarly (in a good way) with the eyepatch. Does it have skull and bones on it at least?
Anyway, got a few shitty slappy fs crooks yesterday so that was a huge stoke.
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couldn't skate until the kids were asleep and the horrid gremlins somehow managed to extend their 7.30 bedtime to 9.45, which is when the lights go out out at the park. so for one night only i was transformed from a rad-dad, park-rat, loser to a certified street purist - the insane bastard offspring of oyola and puleo, ripping through the urban jungle on my tiny wooden steed.
basically skated a pretty perfect ledge, got a good fs noseslide, knew i didn't have anything better in me, so bought myself a beer and came home.
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Trying to learn how to skate with an eyepatch. Got a little fs feeble grind to fakie on a tiny noping quarter pipe. Bs and fs tail stall also. Mostly just sat on my ass and smoked a huge joint and drank a gin grapefruit drink while I escaped my demon children for an hour. Was nice.
More one-eye progress today. Got the old signature front nose and locked in and slid a few fakie ollie bs tail/switch front nose whatever you call them. Think I should be able to get that trick with a bit of persistence and maybe some depth perception would help lol...
It must be awkward skating with one eye because you basically lose a dimension. On the other hand you certainly look super gnarly (in a good way) with the eyepatch. Does it have skull and bones on it at least?
Anyway, got a few shitty slappy fs crooks yesterday so that was a huge stoke.
Yeah, it's mostly awkward because it's a temporary thing (hopefully) but I just can't shake the itch and gotta go out and try to skate anyway. No skull and bones but it's a very convex patch I can stuff gause under to absorb the tears and mucus seeping out. At the same time, I have to wear glasses over a convex eyepatch which in itself is problematic but hilarious too. Since I very rarely learn new tricks or push myself too hard it's just like an alternate difficulty level at this point.
FS crooks are so juicy though. I'd kill to feel any iteration of that grind. Being fs noseslide guy it's just a few angles away but still so elusive to me no matter how slow or methodical I approach it. Basically impossible.
Riding away from them surely feels great and don't undersell it by saying they're shitty. Huge stoke is inspirational!
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Trying to learn how to skate with an eyepatch. Got a little fs feeble grind to fakie on a tiny noping quarter pipe. Bs and fs tail stall also. Mostly just sat on my ass and smoked a huge joint and drank a gin grapefruit drink while I escaped my demon children for an hour. Was nice.
More one-eye progress today. Got the old signature front nose and locked in and slid a few fakie ollie bs tail/switch front nose whatever you call them. Think I should be able to get that trick with a bit of persistence and maybe some depth perception would help lol...
It must be awkward skating with one eye because you basically lose a dimension. On the other hand you certainly look super gnarly (in a good way) with the eyepatch. Does it have skull and bones on it at least?
Anyway, got a few shitty slappy fs crooks yesterday so that was a huge stoke.
Yeah, it's mostly awkward because it's a temporary thing (hopefully) but I just can't shake the itch and gotta go out and try to skate anyway. No skull and bones but it's a very convex patch I can stuff gause under to absorb the tears and mucus seeping out. At the same time, I have to wear glasses over a convex eyepatch which in itself is problematic but hilarious too. Since I very rarely learn new tricks or push myself too hard it's just like an alternate difficulty level at this point.
FS crooks are so juicy though. I'd kill to feel any iteration of that grind. Being fs noseslide guy it's just a few angles away but still so elusive to me no matter how slow or methodical I approach it. Basically impossible.
Riding away from them surely feels great and don't undersell it by saying they're shitty. Huge stoke is inspirational!
Great to see you skate despite that handicap.
Re fs slappy crooks: Trust me they are shitty. I can lock in and grind anytime (but only on my go to curb, nowhere else), but getting of is super hard. I learned them on a parking block where I could just drop of at the end but on this curb I have to "pop" out. However, on the attempts I roll away, I basically just slip/fall of the curb. I have been practicing them all Winter but still no clue how to actually get of properly.
OT got a quick morning session in and slammed on a warm up ollie, rasping of some skin inside my palm. Now I am typing away at my keyboard trying not to smear blood all over it.
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i did 6 kickflips on flat and then my nipples started burning cause it was so hot/humid out. fuck summer
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Skated blacktop for the first time in years. Forgot that the body definitely does not slide when you slam upon it and it does a mighty fine impression of a cheese grater too.
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first big session since when I broke my finger, I spent a couple hours trying to nollie out of a flatbar crook without success, fuck skateboarding sometimes
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first big session since when I broke my finger, I spent a couple hours trying to nollie out of a flatbar crook without success, fuck skateboarding sometimes
wdym nollie out tho, the only way out of crooks are through nollies
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Went out for a spur of the moment evening session having already skated at lunch. Landed fakie FS kickflip and heelflips, which I haven't done for ages as I favour fakie BS, so that was rewarding.
Learnt a new trick too, which was unexpected... twisted flip (varial flip body varial). I'll take myself straight to jail for that, but damn, it felt good.
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Went out for a spur of the moment evening session having already skated at lunch. Landed fakie FS kickflip and heelflips, which I haven't done for ages as I favour fakie BS, so that was rewarding.
Learnt a new trick too, which was unexpected... twisted flip (varial flip body varial). I'll take myself straight to jail for that, but damn, it felt good.
I once did one of those by accident whilst practicing tres, I even have a clip. I am sure if asked to, I could not land one in a thousand years tho.
https://youtu.be/bKYh6UJG6CM
As for myself, I got my first proper lipslide today (on the lowest level of my flatbar, but still). This took a while, I have been at it for months. Felt very good.
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Went out for a spur of the moment evening session having already skated at lunch. Landed fakie FS kickflip and heelflips, which I haven't done for ages as I favour fakie BS, so that was rewarding.
Learnt a new trick too, which was unexpected... twisted flip (varial flip body varial). I'll take myself straight to jail for that, but damn, it felt good.
I once did one of those by accident whilst practicing tres, I even have a clip. I am sure if asked to, I could not land one in a thousand years tho.
https://youtu.be/bKYh6UJG6CM
As for myself, I got my first proper lipslide today (on the lowest level of my flatbar, but still). This took a while, I have been at it for months. Felt very good.
for an accidental land, that was super clean!
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Was another big one, my son learnt boardslides on curbs and is now obsessed with the feeling, I give it two weeks before he overtakes his old man …
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Absolute nightmare of a session yesterday. So I was skating the park with a couple homies when a gaggle of about a dozen very small kids ran in and started running amok. Not too out of the ordinary until eventually I notice they have an actual infant in a stroller trying to get it up a 6 foot quarterpipe, in which we finally intervened. After a couple attempts to get them to stop one of their dads comes in the park and tries to get tough to us explaining that "it's his 3 year old's birthday and this is what he wanted to do." When I tried explaining that they almost just cracked an infant's skull he said "they don't understand that, so watch my kids", then leaves again.
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first big session since when I broke my finger, I spent a couple hours trying to nollie out of a flatbar crook without success, fuck skateboarding sometimes
wdym nollie out tho, the only way out of crooks are through nollies
I mean yea exactly and I can't do it, which is why it's frustrating, I can only sorta nudge out but it looks gross. With nollie out I mean a proper confident exit
*insert clip of any tiago crook*
I don't have good flatground nollies so it makes sense but actually what I think is the biggest problem is that I freeze during the grind, like my brain/body can't execute more tasks in such a short time
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Almost skipped on a session because I was too tired.
Ended up having a blast and got a old trick back that I haven’t landed in 15+ years.
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I broke my foot on a stupid fr nose.6 weeks off.
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Taking a break until my new knee pads come in. I've been paranoid lately cause two random folks mentioned I wasn't wearing pads anymore (use to wear them when I first started last year). And now I feel like it's a sign I should put them back on cause I'm about to have a freak accident or some shit. I've gotten a lot better, but I'm still a newbie.
I've only ever fallen on my knee once. Went to push and hit a patch of sand. But they're already awful and don't want to risk that again.
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Absolute nightmare of a session yesterday. So I was skating the park with a couple homies when a gaggle of about a dozen very small kids ran in and started running amok. Not too out of the ordinary until eventually I notice they have an actual infant in a stroller trying to get it up a 6 foot quarterpipe, in which we finally intervened. After a couple attempts to get them to stop one of their dads comes in the park and tries to get tough to us explaining that "it's his 3 year old's birthday and this is what he wanted to do." When I tried explaining that they almost just cracked an infant's skull he said "they don't understand that, so watch my kids", then leaves again.
My baby is 6mo old and this spiked my dad energy super hard. I'm not above bringing him to the park for a nap while i get a lil sesh in, but fuck everything about that.
Little children unsupervised, pushing an infant, at a concrete slab. "watch my kids", fuck that. I'm leaving before I become a witness to anything more.
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Some random grown ass couple came into the park with their kids who started running around everywhere while the dude lied down on the main speed bump in the park to strike a pose for his girl to take pictures. Other than witnessing that nonsense I had a solid sesh today, figured out nollies on hips.
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I went to my bank spot. Until today I managed to roll away from a heelflip every single time I went there but not today. I am truly bummed and this basically ruined my weekend. I know it‘s stupid to get frustrated like this but it seriously bums me out.
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7am. Got some slappies. Had to be home by 9am. Skating with a time limit is
lame the best.
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practiced front tails on tranny. got it on lock on 3ft qps & practiced a bunch on 5ft
tried front nosegrind on tranny for the first time, and got folded (but i did lock in overcrook tho even tho i slipped out - which is all that matters). i landed on my already fractured wrist, i think i have a concussion now - head has been pulsating the whole day. my left thigh muscles feel caved in and my lower back is fucked
gonna skate again tuesday no matter what so hopefully i can walk by then
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practiced front tails on tranny. got it on lock on 3ft qps & practiced a bunch on 5ft
tried front nosegrind on tranny for the first time, and got folded (but i did lock in overcrook tho even tho i slipped out - which is all that matters). i landed on my already fractured wrist, i think i have a concussion now - head has been pulsating the whole day. my left thigh muscles feel caved in and my lower back is fucked
gonna skate again tuesday no matter what so hopefully i can walk by then
I am a big fan of your motivation but concussions aren't no joke. Especially if you feel some vertigo or had to throw up but I wish you luck for a nice session on tuesday.
Yesterday it was 82°F with 50% humidity. But I didn't felt like hanging around at a lake or just chilling, so I went for a solo session in the Ikea parking garage. Felt good.
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Absolute nightmare of a session yesterday. So I was skating the park with a couple homies when a gaggle of about a dozen very small kids ran in and started running amok. Not too out of the ordinary until eventually I notice they have an actual infant in a stroller trying to get it up a 6 foot quarterpipe, in which we finally intervened. After a couple attempts to get them to stop one of their dads comes in the park and tries to get tough to us explaining that "it's his 3 year old's birthday and this is what he wanted to do." When I tried explaining that they almost just cracked an infant's skull he said "they don't understand that, so watch my kids", then leaves again.
My baby is 6mo old and this spiked my dad energy super hard. I'm not above bringing him to the park for a nap while i get a lil sesh in, but fuck everything about that.
Little children unsupervised, pushing an infant, at a concrete slab. "watch my kids", fuck that. I'm leaving before I become a witness to anything more.
My DIY is very colorful and it's right by a playground. So this isn't the first time it's happened and it certainly won't be the last. It's frustrating because the argument is always framed over the skaters being immature but I've seen little kids get seriously hurt because they're running around unattended. Having a conscience can be stressful.
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Had a nice "recalibration" post-vacation sesh yesterday at a-frame/QP park. I felt surprisingly comfortable on the board and landed this line a few times:
-Frontside nosegrind flat ledge
-Frontside ollie QP
-Tre-flip a-frame
Landed one of my best tre flips ever on the last one I did. Finally getting the right mix of pop and scoop.
I battled a half cab manual shuv-out with some of the time I had left yesterday, and went back this morning to see if I could get it. Trying to stop my turning momentum after the half cab is very tricky, which makes the shuv out pretty difficult and only works out every 10 tries or so. Didn't land it, but got a decent line after calling the battle:
-Nose manual pad
-Rock fakie QP
-Half cab manual back 180 out
The 180/revert out tends to work better as I can just follow my body's turning momentum off the pad. Very fun feeling trick, almost like a full cab with a pause in the middle.
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I moved into the house right next to my old house (same landlord) so I feel funny skating in the parking lot behind the house I don’t live in. I have a little 2 foot quarter pipe on wheels and a box in the furnace room in the basement. After I put my daughter to bed I went over and took the ramp out and skated out back there. Had a quick little sesh. I was also wasted which is why I didn’t feel self conscious at all about going into a house I don’t live in to drag out a big heavy ramp but it was really fun. I miss skating that little ramp. Got a couple front feebles and back smiths. So fun
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I skated from 7am to 8am today, never got out so early. It was cool tho, the air still fresh. Might do that again.
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I skated from 7am to 8am today, never got out so early. It was cool tho, the air still fresh. Might do that again.
How did you do that? Did you ate breakfast or just went straight outta bed to the spot? That is rad dude.
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Any one else get performance/social anxiety skating with new people???? I'm fine skating around people at skatepakrs but for some reason meeting new people and sharing a spot from them is tough for me.
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Any one else get performance/social anxiety skating with new people???? I'm fine skating around people at skatepakrs but for some reason meeting new people and sharing a spot from them is tough for me.
Yeah man. I don’t know why either. It’s not like anyone really cares what we’re doing. I hope you can relax and enjoy yourself but easier said than done.
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Any one else get performance/social anxiety skating with new people???? I'm fine skating around people at skatepakrs but for some reason meeting new people and sharing a spot from them is tough for me.
Yeah, the "spotlight effect" is real, im better at dealing with it some days more than others for sure.
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My son learnt proper frontside power slides and slappy noseslides, only a matter of weeks before he overtakes me and I couldn’t be happier
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I skated from 7am to 8am today, never got out so early. It was cool tho, the air still fresh. Might do that again.
Early morning is hands down my favorite time to go skate. Weather is cool, typically the park/spot is less crowded, and personally I find that skating before I start anything else for the day puts me in the right mindset.
How did you do that? Did you ate breakfast or just went straight outta bed to the spot? That is rad dude.
Just thought I'd share my two cents - I have been practicing some form of intermittent fasting for the last 10 years or so, so I am fairly comfortable hopping out of bed, having a quick cup of coffee, then going straight into my session. I typically don't like skating with food in my stomach, but I've done a smoothie or banana pre-sesh without too much digestive turbulence.
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Not a great session. Haven’t skated in 10 days, came back and I can barely ollie. Took like 20 attempts to land a decent one.
Wondering if I should even bother with tricks to be honest. I just started last year and my body can only tolerate like three hours of skating a week. So it seems like every time I take a little break I have to spend a session relearning stuff.
You’ll see a lot of YouTubers be like, “Oh this trick is easy.” None of them are, especially if you’re starting as an adult and can’t skate daily 😖
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I skated from 7am to 8am today, never got out so early. It was cool tho, the air still fresh. Might do that again.
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How did you do that? Did you ate breakfast or just went straight outta bed to the spot? That is rad dude.
Just thought I'd share my two cents - I have been practicing some form of intermittent fasting for the last 10 years or so, so I am fairly comfortable hopping out of bed, having a quick cup of coffee, then going straight into my session. I typically don't like skating with food in my stomach, but I've done a smoothie or banana pre-sesh without too much digestive turbulence.
@fs1/2cab sorry I didn't see your comment but basically what @mfweeno said. I am on intermittent fasting as well and I don't like skating on a full stomach so it was out of bed, skate, shower, go to work. Might do it again tomorrow.
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I skated from 7am to 8am today, never got out so early. It was cool tho, the air still fresh. Might do that again.
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How did you do that? Did you ate breakfast or just went straight outta bed to the spot? That is rad dude.
Just thought I'd share my two cents - I have been practicing some form of intermittent fasting for the last 10 years or so, so I am fairly comfortable hopping out of bed, having a quick cup of coffee, then going straight into my session. I typically don't like skating with food in my stomach, but I've done a smoothie or banana pre-sesh without too much digestive turbulence.
@fs1/2cab sorry I didn't see your comment but basically what @mfweeno said. I am on intermittent fasting as well and I don't like skating on a full stomach so it was out of bed, skate, shower, go to work. Might do it again tomorrow.
Thanks for the response you two. I will try that too soon. But not before work, that's crazy. But hats off to you.
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mine ended with a dude who runs the jerk chicken place near my flat loudly calling on jesus to drive disease out of my daughter's body. which wasn't what i was expecting.
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mine ended with a dude who runs the jerk chicken place near my flat loudly calling on jesus to drive disease out of my daughter's body. which wasn't what i was expecting.
I feel bad for laughing at this 😭
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49 years old last week, first skate session since I'm trying to learn fs bluntslides on a small quarter. Hard to come back in and until it slides I don't know if it's to fakie, backside in or some feel like a bigspin will work, I made a shitty one back in backside that went to a horrible backside smith but it told me that... It's on... Next session next week.
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mine ended with a dude who runs the jerk chicken place near my flat loudly calling on jesus to drive disease out of my daughter's body. which wasn't what i was expecting.
it was a trip.
she has a visible disability and he just came up out of the blue and asked if i wanted him to pray for her.
i was just pushing her back in the stroller from a flat ground session where she'd been napping/cheerleading for me. i'd gotten the trick i was after literally a few moments before, so i was in an ultra-accepting mood. i was like 'yeah sure, thanks, appreciate the kind gesture' thinking he meant it in a 'i'll keep her in my prayers way'.
that wasn't how he meant it at all.
he started praying out loud and i just had to stand there and wait. every time i thought it was almost over, he kicked up another gear until he was full on bellowing at the heavens.
it was still kind of moving though, in a slightly disturbing way.
we went our separate ways and then when i got back to my street he was there opening up the shop and it was like - oh shit i live right next to you...
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mine ended with a dude who runs the jerk chicken place near my flat loudly calling on jesus to drive disease out of my daughter's body. which wasn't what i was expecting.
it was a trip.
she has a visible disability and he just came up out of the blue and asked if i wanted him to pray for her.
i was just pushing her back in the stroller from a flat ground session where she'd been napping/cheerleading for me. i'd gotten the trick i was after literally a few moments before, so i was in an ultra-accepting mood. i was like 'yeah sure, thanks, appreciate the kind gesture' thinking he meant it in a 'i'll keep her in my prayers way'.
that wasn't how he meant it at all.
he started praying out loud and i just had to stand there and wait. every time i thought it was almost over, he kicked up another gear until he was full on bellowing at the heavens.
it was still kind of moving though, in a slightly disturbing way.
we went our separate ways and then when i got back to my street he was there opening up the shop and it was like - oh shit i live right next to you...
Oh no, that’s sounds awful. What a kook. Glad you landed your trick though as your daughter cheered. I’m sure that was nice 😊
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Pumped the mini 10 minutes did one 5050 on a ledge then left.
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Got my 7am session and twisted my ankle badly. I have been just recovering from a bruised front foot ankle (which is still hurting) and now the back foot is twisted as well. I guess this was the last session in a while which truly bums me out. I guess I'll order a bearing press to console myself and chuck out those shitty Quantums that jam up after every session. Keep busy, you know? :-)
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Got my 7am session and twisted my ankle badly. I have been just recovering from a bruised front foot ankle (which is still hurting) and now the back foot is twisted as well. I guess this was the last session in a while which truly bums me out. I guess I'll order a bearing press to console myself and chuck out those shitty Quantums that jam up after every session. Keep busy, you know? :-)
That sucks, heal up soon mate....ankles are the worst, usually do mine a couple times a year.
5 days after absolutely nailing myself and splitting my chin open, I had a chill session lastnight at the local...was having a hard time with some of my go-to bank flip tricks, then ended up slipping out on a BS flip on the bank. Straight down on my arse and wrists, now my neck is complaining even more than it was after the big slam last week...did at least land one a couple tries later, then called it a day.
I hate taking time off the board, but really going to force myself to take 3 days, slams on slams just make it all worse...hard to do at the moment as the weather in the UK is skate-perfect.
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Got my 7am session and twisted my ankle badly. I have been just recovering from a bruised front foot ankle (which is still hurting) and now the back foot is twisted as well. I guess this was the last session in a while which truly bums me out. I guess I'll order a bearing press to console myself and chuck out those shitty Quantums that jam up after every session. Keep busy, you know? :-)
That sucks, heal up soon mate....ankles are the worst, usually do mine a couple times a year.
5 days after absolutely nailing myself and splitting my chin open, I had a chill session lastnight at the local...was having a hard time with some of my go-to bank flip tricks, then ended up slipping out on a BS flip on the bank. Straight down on my arse and wrists, now my neck is complaining even more than it was after the big slam last week...did at least land one a couple tries later, then called it a day.
I hate taking time off the board, but really going to force myself to take 3 days, slams on slams just make it all worse...hard to do at the moment as the weather in the UK is skate-perfect.
Cheers, same here, perfect weather. Cruel not to be able to get the most of it.
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Well, I failed at that pretty fast... dug around in the skate box before my lunch break and set up an egg cruiser on some old 90a mini logos. Skated out to get some lunch and did some surfy laps around the park.
Did behave though, all 4 wheels didn't leave the ground. I don't do much cruising about, should do more, it's kind of fun in a different way to skating street and flatground.
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I’m 30lbs heavier than I was in my glory days, and my legs have forgotten how to pop.. but I felt better on the board yesterday than I have in quite awhile. If I can keep skating my box in the church parking lot without getting kicked out, I might actually get somewhere with it.
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Got my 7am session and twisted my ankle badly. I have been just recovering from a bruised front foot ankle (which is still hurting) and now the back foot is twisted as well. I guess this was the last session in a while which truly bums me out. I guess I'll order a bearing press to console myself and chuck out those shitty Quantums that jam up after every session. Keep busy, you know? :-)
Sorry to hear it man - heal up!
I got to the park at a quarter to 8 this morning. I'm still in this weird groove with manuals for some reason, so I warmed up on the pad and started messing with kickflip manuals. I used to have kickflip manuals fairly consistent at my adolescent skate-rat peak, but have lost them over time.
Ended up landing/filming 3 makes, the last of which was my favorite. Felt really nice to get those back.
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Got my 7am session and twisted my ankle badly. I have been just recovering from a bruised front foot ankle (which is still hurting) and now the back foot is twisted as well. I guess this was the last session in a while which truly bums me out. I guess I'll order a bearing press to console myself and chuck out those shitty Quantums that jam up after every session. Keep busy, you know? :-)
I got to the park at a quarter to 8 this morning. I'm still in this weird groove with manuals for some reason, so I warmed up on the pad and started messing with kickflip manuals. I used to have kickflip manuals fairly consistent at my adolescent skate-rat peak, but have lost them over time.
Ended up landing/filming 3 makes, the last of which was my favorite. Felt really nice to get those back.
Cheers bruh, kickflip mannies must be cool. One of my best tricks back in the day was a kickflip to 50/50 but old me hasn‘t manned up to try one yet.
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Skated a park for an hour but my allergies were so distracting that I had to call it. Couldn’t breathe out of my nose and my eyes were burning. My head felt so disgusting that I couldn’t get into the sesh. Hopeful that today will be better.
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When y’all are trying a new trick, do y’all drill it over and over, or try a few times then move on?
I ask cause I tried a trick 40 times and now I’m really sore, thinking it might be best to do 10 attempts and move on. Because it didn’t feel like I was coming any closer to landing it, just hurting myself.
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When y’all are trying a new trick, do y’all drill it over and over, or try a few times then move on?
I ask cause I tried a trick 40 times and now I’m really sore, thinking it might be best to do 10 attempts and move on. Because it didn’t feel like I was coming any closer to landing it, just hurting myself.
if it's something i know i can do, i'll go up to 40 or 50 attempts (like 20-25 minutes of tries).
if it's totally new, and i don't feel i''m getting anywhere, i won't drill it. i'll leave it and come back to it when i feel i've had some moment of insight that'll get me closer - like seeing someone else do it a particular way, or fucking up a different trick in a way that teaches me something about that one.
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Almost a year since my injury, and finally getting my hard tricks back. Landed three fakie tres on flat yesterday, most I've ever done in a sesh, and getting closer to getting regular tres again. Also got a solid back tail on a decent sized ledge, landed a couple of real good fs flips, and getting better at holding 50s and 5-0s across the long QPs. ;D
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110 heat index. some old friends showed up and made it worthwhile.
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When y’all are trying a new trick, do y’all drill it over and over, or try a few times then move on?
I ask cause I tried a trick 40 times and now I’m really sore, thinking it might be best to do 10 attempts and move on. Because it didn’t feel like I was coming any closer to landing it, just hurting myself.
Depends on the spot and the trick. On flatground and mellow spots it's not uncommon for me to go for 100+ tries in a single session if it's something I've landed before or if I'm close. From a strict performance perspective that's not really optional, but it's like meditating to me. I clear my mind of all the stuff that's bugging me and just lose myself in the process.
When it comes to learning completely new stuff, I usually throw in random tries here and there first and then move on to 10-20 tries per session, though not every session. Once I'm starting to get close, see above.
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When y’all are trying a new trick, do y’all drill it over and over, or try a few times then move on?
I ask cause I tried a trick 40 times and now I’m really sore, thinking it might be best to do 10 attempts and move on. Because it didn’t feel like I was coming any closer to landing it, just hurting myself.
Depends on the spot and the trick. On flatground and mellow spots it's not uncommon for me to go for 100+ tries in a single session if it's something I've landed before or if I'm close. From a strict performance perspective that's not really optional, but it's like meditating to me. I clear my mind of all the stuff that's bugging me and just lose myself in the process.
When it comes to learning completely new stuff, I usually throw in random tries here and there first and then move on to 10-20 tries per session, though not every session. Once I'm starting to get close, see above.
Thanks for the replies, y’all. 100 tries would probably have me limping for a week lol. I think I’ll stick to 10 for now. I tend to get laser focused and don’t want to stop until I land clean. I always want to end on a make, but that leads to lots of abuse on my knees 😖
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Got absolutely bodied yesterday.
I was on the way out of town to pick a friend up, and stopped at this park in the next town out.
It's all pre-fab on a blacktop, but the surface of the ramps is that weird hard rubber/plastic sheeting. The ramps aren't too bad but the difference of terrain between the flat and the ramps is very distinct and a bit jarring.
It took me a bit to accustomed to the distinction, but got warmed up easy enough. I started feeling comfortable and kinda went auto-pilot mode.
I put too much trust/nonchalance in myself and completely hung up on a roll-in. 100%. I watched my speed get killed and my back wheels stick on the coping on the deck. My feet stay behind and I drop like a sack of rocks straight onto my side, sandwiching my elbow straight into my ribs and forcing the wind out of my lungs.
Today feels like I got smacked with a baseball bat in the chest.
Luckily, it was the biggest QP at the park so that's gnarly maybe 5 foot tall.....
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Drove 20 minutes through traffic across town to see the parking lot closed up in a high traffic area with no parking anywhere around.
Drove another 30 minutes in traffic to find the other skatepark absolutely packed with people just loitering the whole place.
Said fuck it I'll skate the plaza downtown, paid 5 bucks to park, skated 30 seconds and said fuck this and went home. The rage just built up, felt off on the board, wind was insane, took everything in me to not focus my board.
Solid sesh
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Got absolutely bodied yesterday.
I was on the way out of town to pick a friend up, and stopped at this park in the next town out.
It's all pre-fab on a blacktop, but the surface of the ramps is that weird hard rubber/plastic sheeting. The ramps aren't too bad but the difference of terrain between the flat and the ramps is very distinct and a bit jarring.
It took me a bit to accustomed to the distinction, but got warmed up easy enough. I started feeling comfortable and kinda went auto-pilot mode.
I put too much trust/nonchalance in myself and completely hung up on a roll-in. 100%. I watched my speed get killed and my back wheels stick on the coping on the deck. My feet stay behind and I drop like a sack of rocks straight onto my side, sandwiching my elbow straight into my ribs and forcing the wind out of my lungs.
Today feels like I got smacked with a baseball bat in the chest.
Luckily, it was the biggest QP at the park so that's gnarly maybe 5 foot tall.....
Aw man, hanging up on any quarter pipe sucks but 5ft is a long way to fall like that. Worst feeling ever when it happens that quickly and you can't catch yourself or anything.
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I think I need to start up some solid workout routine to get in shape for skating, every time I step on a board after 2 weeks off, i'm relearning ollies. Gettin' old is garbage.
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I think I need to start up some solid workout routine to get in shape for skating, every time I step on a board after 2 weeks off, i'm relearning ollies. Gettin' old is garbage.
I feel it. I’ve decided to only skate once a week for maintenance and forget about progression for now. Gotta lose at least 20lbs. Being old, tall, and heavy is a bad combo.
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Got back on the board after a 15 year break, been warming back up trying flat ground stuff in my shop fuck I hate getting old everything hurts and takes effort but somehow I can still catch a kickflip. Tried to skate the shitty pre fab park down the road after work and it was full of broccoli haircut demons playing music over eachother from every direction and they were trying to film everything they did, also strange amount of really pimped out scooters I didn't know those were still a thing. Got heckled for skating in steel toe boots by a child and also got in in a satisfying manual on a little box and a solid kickflip on a tiny quarter and dipped. Tried again at 5am before work to avoid the demons and another 30 year old guy showed up and was slaying the low flat bar, shot the shit for a little and he invited me to his mini ramp this weekend so that was cool.
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Got back on the board after a 15 year break, been warming back up trying flat ground stuff in my shop fuck I hate getting old everything hurts and takes effort but somehow I can still catch a kickflip. Tried to skate the shitty pre fab park down the road after work and it was full of broccoli haircut demons playing music over eachother from every direction and they were trying to film everything they did, also strange amount of really pimped out scooters I didn't know those were still a thing. Got heckled for skating in steel toe boots by a child and also got in in a satisfying manual on a little box and a solid kickflip on a tiny quarter and dipped. Tried again at 5am before work to avoid the demons and another 30 year old guy showed up and was slaying the low flat bar, shot the shit for a little and he invited me to his mini ramp this weekend so that was cool.
Glad you’re back at it, but that kid may have been right. You shouldn’t skate in steel toe boots. Join the rest of us in the gear section and get some nice cupsoles for your “old” knees 😃
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Got back on the board after a 15 year break, been warming back up trying flat ground stuff in my shop fuck I hate getting old everything hurts and takes effort but somehow I can still catch a kickflip. Tried to skate the shitty pre fab park down the road after work and it was full of broccoli haircut demons playing music over eachother from every direction and they were trying to film everything they did, also strange amount of really pimped out scooters I didn't know those were still a thing. Got heckled for skating in steel toe boots by a child and also got in in a satisfying manual on a little box and a solid kickflip on a tiny quarter and dipped. Tried again at 5am before work to avoid the demons and another 30 year old guy showed up and was slaying the low flat bar, shot the shit for a little and he invited me to his mini ramp this weekend so that was cool.
Yeah that little kid was definitely right if I was 15 again I would have talked shit to me too. Surprisingly my knees aren't bad but my ankles have seen better days. Steel toes don't skate well I'll buy some shoes that don't weigh 3 pounds a piece.
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Got back on the board after a 15 year break, been warming back up trying flat ground stuff in my shop fuck I hate getting old everything hurts and takes effort but somehow I can still catch a kickflip. Tried to skate the shitty pre fab park down the road after work and it was full of broccoli haircut demons playing music over eachother from every direction and they were trying to film everything they did, also strange amount of really pimped out scooters I didn't know those were still a thing. Got heckled for skating in steel toe boots by a child and also got in in a satisfying manual on a little box and a solid kickflip on a tiny quarter and dipped. Tried again at 5am before work to avoid the demons and another 30 year old guy showed up and was slaying the low flat bar, shot the shit for a little and he invited me to his mini ramp this weekend so that was cool.
Yeah that little kid was definitely right if I was 15 again I would have talked shit to me too. Surprisingly my knees aren't bad but my ankles have seen better days. Steel toes don't skate well I'll buy some shoes that don't weigh 3 pounds a piece.
Actually, doing tricks in them may be like using ankle weights. Once you take ‘em of you’ll have crazy pop 😃
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Skated the prefab at 430am this morning and dog walking creep lady called the cops on me who proceeded to show up immediately because there's nothing going on in farmland town and they understood exactly why I was skating when I was after I explained that I was not interested in skating after the demon children awake and invade the park. Landed a 180 up on a tiny box and slipped out on the dew and I think I bruised my ass cheek. Landed a couple old guy big spins off the box. 10/10 awesome time. Need more old guy trick suggestions.
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an old head taught me how to back d properly bonking the coping
too humid to do shit, so it was a short sesh
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Hung up on a fakie distaster on a 6ft ramp, straight to hip on the flat, saved by padded shorts. Skated for a couple hours. No new tricks but a good maintenance session.
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had a decent, but short sessions. Got close on a couple of slappy crooks on a 6-7“ high outledge that extends from the manny pad at the local park. But always flopped out, trying to get off to regular
My knee didn’t like the 20“ drop. Jumpers knee started flaring up. Icing didn’t help. I’m hoping that it will be fine by next weekend.
All in all great session, but still kinda bummed about the trick that got away and the knee pain
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new kicks came in so i pushed and powerslid around a parking lot.
first session since my 4 surgeries over the fall/winter. my shit is still hella weak but it felt good to powerslide over speed bumps and do manuals. hopefully i can start cracking curbs again in the near future.
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Awful. New Deck, old shoes without grip, too hot. I had to fight like an idiot for some basics I normally get first try. Madness kicked in and I basically wasted my sesh with trying to land a halfcab flip on flat..
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Very bad, i felt really tired and i was having mental blocks over tricks that I can usually do every time. I feel like I'm getting worse at skateboarding. Might need to take a break for a couple of weeks and just do slappies only
Need more old guy trick suggestions.
Slappies
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Got a little morning Father’s Day session in at the skatepark in the morning like 8 am to 10 am. It was very fun. I don’t get to skate too often these days, but first try on flat kicky, 360 flip and nollie flip usually starts me out good. Had a good time. Did a nice feeling switch flip back to regular on the bank. Pieced together a couple lines. Got home and played with my daughter. Built her little fisher price car when she took a nap. Had no idea it was that involved. It said takes approximately 50 minutes to build with two people and those two people they’re talking about must be more competent than my wife and I, but building it was fun. I took her out and pushed her in it on my egg setup (which I still don’t think I like). Got a couple more kickys in and few switch ones as well. I really think the key to a better day skating for me is first thing do all the shoves on flat to get the legs moving.
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got a mega fuckton of front tailslides on a 4 ft quarter, its finally working for me, only problem is that i stop completely after sliding 2-3 feet. i guess i need to be more quickfooted to come in smoove
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More frustrating than fun these days. Have a really nice local to skate that is ruined by dimwitted parents and their children. Have a bunch of kids doing parkour/crawling around the park, some riding around on trikes they can barely control and a few kicking a football across the park too despite there being like multiple ovals in the same complex. This is pretty much everyday of the week as it's right next to a popular playground.
Can't wait to get a mini and say goodbye to skateparks.
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Got back on the board after a 15 year break, been warming back up trying flat ground stuff in my shop fuck I hate getting old everything hurts and takes effort but somehow I can still catch a kickflip. Tried to skate the shitty pre fab park down the road after work and it was full of broccoli haircut demons playing music over eachother from every direction and they were trying to film everything they did, also strange amount of really pimped out scooters I didn't know those were still a thing. Got heckled for skating in steel toe boots by a child and also got in in a satisfying manual on a little box and a solid kickflip on a tiny quarter and dipped. Tried again at 5am before work to avoid the demons and another 30 year old guy showed up and was slaying the low flat bar, shot the shit for a little and he invited me to his mini ramp this weekend so that was cool.
All about those early morning sessions once you're 30+
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I didn't really have fun today like I usually do. Maybe it was the new board, or maybe I didn't skate at the right places for the kind of day I was having. Either way, there's always tomorrow.
Lately I've been seeing more and more groups of people at parks just smoking big joints back to back and watching others skate, and not skating themselves. They have boards and everything, they just get too high to skate I guess, or never skated all that much to begin with. I know this is common place and always has been, but being around it today bummed me out more than usual.
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broke my foot.
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Skated 7-9am. By 9 it was getting crowded. School is out and I was kind of surprised to see younger kids at the park that early, but they were there to skate and not bullshit, so that was cool. Met a cool dude older than me who is just getting back into skating…then was bummed to watch him take a serious slam. He was fully padded up and got right up, so thats good. Welcome back to skateboarding.
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Ate shit kick turning on a quarter pipe. My acl is blown out and I keep putting off the surgery out of fear of the rehab process+bills
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I went to skate at a park I’m unfamiliar with and was unnerved by how smooth the concrete was. It was nice but it also felt really weird and made me uneasy. It was like some magic school bus no friction zone.
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Got a little morning Father’s Day session in at the skatepark in the morning like 8 am to 10 am. It was very fun. I don’t get to skate too often these days, but first try on flat kicky, 360 flip and nollie flip usually starts me out good. Had a good time. Did a nice feeling switch flip back to regular on the bank. Pieced together a couple lines. Got home and played with my daughter. Built her little fisher price car when she took a nap. Had no idea it was that involved. It said takes approximately 50 minutes to build with two people and those two people they’re talking about must be more competent than my wife and I, but building it was fun. I took her out and pushed her in it on my egg setup (which I still don’t think I like). Got a couple more kickys in and few switch ones as well. I really think the key to a better day skating for me is first thing do all the shoves on flat to get the legs moving.
any switch flip advice for me?
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eat lunch at desk shortly before lunch break, get 45 mins in during actual lunch break. sweat profusely at 1pm meeting because you hadn't planned that far ahead
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Had a pretty fun "two-a-day" yesterday which is a rare occurrence for me.
I first went to a-frame/QP park in the morning. I slept in a little more than I typically do, so I only had 45 minutes or so to push around instead of the usual hour and 15 minutes. Did some lines to warm up, then filmed this one a few times:
Nollie front 180 a-frame
Fakie pivot rock fakie QP
Fakie flip a-frame
Later in the day, the weather was nice and I had some free time to head to one of the little street spots near my house. This particular spot has a flat gap from the sidewalk over a small wheelchair ramp. I kickflipped the gap a few times, last one was caught high and landed bolts. Felt pretty good for not skating street in a while.
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Got a little morning Father’s Day session in at the skatepark in the morning like 8 am to 10 am. It was very fun. I don’t get to skate too often these days, but first try on flat kicky, 360 flip and nollie flip usually starts me out good. Had a good time. Did a nice feeling switch flip back to regular on the bank. Pieced together a couple lines. Got home and played with my daughter. Built her little fisher price car when she took a nap. Had no idea it was that involved. It said takes approximately 50 minutes to build with two people and those two people they’re talking about must be more competent than my wife and I, but building it was fun. I took her out and pushed her in it on my egg setup (which I still don’t think I like). Got a couple more kickys in and few switch ones as well. I really think the key to a better day skating for me is first thing do all the shoves on flat to get the legs moving.
any switch flip advice for me?
I like to have a more pointed front foot so toes right behind the back bolts little heel hanging off and my back foot square on the back of the tail. Lean forward but try and keep your shoulders a bit more square. When I do them on banks I think of them like a switch backside flip so I’m already facing regular right when I land to roll back down the bank regs.
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Cross post from the ace thread. Took my cruiser (shaped warped Blast with Ace 55s and 58 Radial fulls) to my go to metal curb and the Aces performed badly. Took them to a concrete ledge and they were ok. Then went to a bank on crusty schoolyard and got a nice pop shuv. I guess after only one week my ankle might be up for some real skating tomorrow, or at least I will try and go through my go tos to see how far I get. Amazing, one week a go I could hardly walk.
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Recently bought an element rail cause it was half off. Had my first session on it and had a blast. Should have bought a rail earlier, as there’s not a ton to skate close to my house and this thing is gonna make finding places to skate in winter a whole lot better. Also, I’ve always kinda sucked at rails so maybe I can suck a little less now.
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78°F and 60% humidity today in the Berlin suburbs.
I haven't sweat that much for a while but it was fun to hang out with my homie.
We found a loading dock ledge in a shadowy alleyway, it grinded really well. But there was no grind sound, which is a bit weird when I watch the clip on my camera.
Do people put grind sounds in when they edit videos?
Is that a thing?
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learning back tails
humbled
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Had a sesh on Friday night in the downtown parking garage and ledge that I've been curating at the bank across the street. Learned slappy back 5050s at the new Pensacola park on a day trip the other day and got a few on the parking block. Felt weird that they feel so easy after struggling with them but now it feels oddly natural. Got a couple of 2-piece lines (kickflip then tailslide and front shuv then crook) on the ledges. Had a fun time skating.
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Skated my 8.75 deck/trucks for the first time and it felt amazing. I’m a size 12 and honestly I should’ve been riding this setup my entire life, instead of messing around with 7.75-8.5. Flip tricks are tougher sure, but I can finally pop and grind things without half my foot hanging off the sides.
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I've been skating once a week every month if the rain allowed me but today I had an little injury. When making the motion with my front leg to do a kickflip, I heard a crunch in my hamstrings and couldn't continue practicing ollie tricks for the rest of the afternoon. And I even did some stretching beforehand! The pain was sharp, although now it only hurts a little.
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I've been skating once a week every month if the rain allowed me but today I had an little injury. When making the motion with my front leg to do a kickflip, I heard a crunch in my hamstrings and couldn't continue practicing ollie tricks for the rest of the afternoon. And I even did some stretching beforehand! The pain was sharp, although now it only hurts a little.
Bummer, heal up G.
I took the egg to the concrete curb. I was a bit sceptical how it would perform as I have never slappied large wheels, Aces nor an egg but it turned out fine. Got front and back 50/50s in no time. Got rained out before I could try a crook tho. I think the nose on the egg might be a bit long for that…
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Met up with my 3 best homies. We all were tired or had digestion problems. We went to 3 spots and I managed to get a clip which I like. And then chilling together and talking about days long gone. But I think that’s normal when you are 30+
It was a beautiful day and I am thankful to still be able to do that with the best homies. We all could have went another way in life, but skating saved us from that.
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I went up the street to my curb manual spot and as soon as i got there ate shit pushing up to the curb. It wasnt too bad, but then after 5 min it started to downpour. Walked home 20 min and soon as i got home and got out of my soaked clothes it completely stopped. I shoulda know better than to cheat a friend.
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Caught a couple hrs at my curb spot and worked on getting frontside slappy's dialed in, going faster and slightly less of an angle has helped. I've always felt way more comfortable going backside, so been making an effort to go frontside more and keep trying new/old tricks. Also clear coated my 1st curb to keep the spot evolving. Hit it w/ 2 coats and some wax. Gonna use it to learn feebles, that's the plan at least
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I put a set of almost new maglites on my curb cruiser with the full intention of destroying and/or bending axles so I can get them out of my gear storage box. Damn they grind so smoothly but damn do I really want to get used to new trucks? Kind of no. Next session will be all slappies, the axles will bend, and they’ll be gone.
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I've been skating once a week every month if the rain allowed me but today I had an little injury. When making the motion with my front leg to do a kickflip, I heard a crunch in my hamstrings and couldn't continue practicing ollie tricks for the rest of the afternoon. And I even did some stretching beforehand! The pain was sharp, although now it only hurts a little.
Bummer, heal up G.
I took the egg to the concrete curb. I was a bit sceptical how it would perform as I have never slappied large wheels, Aces nor an egg but it turned out fine. Got front and back 50/50s in no time. Got rained out before I could try a crook tho. I think the nose on the egg might be a bit long for that…
Thank you! It was a bummer because it was the first popped trick of the session. I was skating an egg with Aces too.
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I've been skating once a week every month if the rain allowed me but today I had an little injury. When making the motion with my front leg to do a kickflip, I heard a crunch in my hamstrings and couldn't continue practicing ollie tricks for the rest of the afternoon. And I even did some stretching beforehand! The pain was sharp, although now it only hurts a little.
Bummer, heal up G.
I took the egg to the concrete curb. I was a bit sceptical how it would perform as I have never slappied large wheels, Aces nor an egg but it turned out fine. Got front and back 50/50s in no time. Got rained out before I could try a crook tho. I think the nose on the egg might be a bit long for that…
Thank you! It was a bummer because it was the first popped trick of the session. I was skating an egg with Aces too.
Now I am scared lol.
Had a good sesh today, got my standards plus a nice manny first try.
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it was on a 3 stair with a double-sized hubba in both sides
managed to land a fs 50-50 and a bs noseslide down it
the hard part isnt the tricks, its the run up, I basically spent 30 minutes figuring out how to go in these kind of tiles with rocks that make your board bounce everywhere:
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(you can't go slow cause the board wont follow but can't go fast cause I'll eat shit for sure)
I skated the spot 5 years ago and did the same tricks, but now being 34 and skating a lot less: the excitement was ON.
I know I can do a kickflip bs 50-50 on this shit, I'll get it dudes >:(
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it was on a 3 stair with a double-sized hubba in both sides
managed to land a fs 50-50 and a bs noseslide down it
the hard part isnt the tricks, its the run up, I basically spent 30 minutes figuring out how to go in these kind of tiles with rocks that make your board bounce everywhere:
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I skated the spot 5 years ago and did the same tricks, but now being 34 and skating a lot less: the excitement was ON.
I know I can do a kickflip bs 50-50 on this shit, I'll get it dudes >:(
You didn't heard that from me, but have you tried to roughen these tiles with a rub brick or grinding a stone across them?
And you will get the kickflip back 50.
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Had another "two a day" despite the blazing summer heat. Feels good to reclaim some of the "skate endurance" I had when I was younger (although I still have no idea how I would street skate all day multiple days a week during the summer.)
This morning, I went out to a-frame/QP park again and mostly skated the manny pad/ledge section. I actually really like the design of that element at this park - two "out ledge" flat ledges running along the left side of the pad, one at the beginning and one at the end. Warmed up a bit, then got a half cab up the pad, backside 5-0 on the out ledge.
I still had the itch to go push around during my lunch break (work from home), so I skated down to a nearby dormant shopping center with some curbs and manual pads. Ended up getting a nollie shuv manual a couple of minutes before I had to skate back to the house. My route to and from said shopping center is intersected by a huge bridge that is super fun to bomb. Unexpectedly nice skate day before a chill holiday tomorrow.
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I'm getting front 5050s on the 4ft quarter pretty good now. I thought I might never do good ones on the 5ft but I am so close now. So many months in the making getting comfortable with these.
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I got a quick session today also 15 minutes in the empty park.
I been working on switch basics. Ollie down. Lots of switch tic-tacs. End overs. Switch Ollie. Switch front 50.
I realized that switch backside 180 plower slides are hard af now. I'm going to work on them day after tomorrow.
It's still my main goal to be 100/100 fluid cruiser in both stances.
At the park I did both rocks in all stances. Few laybacks. Pole jam. I can't do switch front side pole jams anymore. I gotta work on that if I ever go back to the skate park in time to remember.
I left the park and did mannys outside market basket instead because blacktop is far superior to concrete.
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Been having a lot of good sessions lately. Getting more consistent at my shitty tricks and relearning some old ones. Almost got the 2piece I've been working on this week but landed in the crack off the ledge at the local crust hole park. Used my karmic bank to mooch a few park drinks. Some young buck who gave me a tall boy killed the battery on his phone showing me his Instagram clips. Thought that was pretty funny at least. Good night overall.
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Evening sesh at the local park. Felt like i was skating for the first time. Everything was off. Maybe I was overly cautious, because I leave for an vacation this weekend.
Knee pain is flaring up again - bummed out.
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Relearning tricks means also relearning how to fall. Somehow managed to crumple myself on a bailed fs noseslide and cracked my neck. Landed it next try then on the rollaway landed my first fs flip in ages. Decided that was good note to end the session on.
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Was actually hitting my ollies after starting back up after a decade. Got a fresh 8" board so I'm not trying to get decent pop on a mothballed 9" pool board (it is being remade into a pool-only board). Thanks to There Skateboards for the donated board I was lucky enough to get, btw. Sick team, loving the board. So yeah, I was at Fat Kid in Brooklyn playing on their little brick banks and was actually was getting some height. Not doing much more than that other than working on dropping in again also. But it felt good to feel some forward movement.
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I skated a plaza in a major city.
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Homie of mine moved to downtown so he and I skated the parking garage/bank ledges. Tried to slappy and bruised the fuck out of my back when I slipped out and fell on the parking block very close to my tailbone. Decided to keep skating and didn't really feel it until way after the session. Got a few different ledge tricks, learned fakie fs 50-50's and landed a couple of good kickflips. I gotta let my lower back heal up before I skate again but glad to skate with the homie after several months.
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Some little kid slammed in to me full speed and knocked me in to the bowl. I almost snapped my leg because I feel in such a weird way and his bike was falling with me. People say skateparks are for everybody but fuck that! Little kids are too unaware and are a danger to others. Sorry rad dads
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I have this bank spot I go to on many Saturdays. In the past, every time I went, I got a heelflip on that bank, until three weeks ago, when I had to abandon deeply frustrated. Went again yesterday, and again, no heelflip. Now Sunday is my slappy day and you won‘t catch me flipping my board. But today I decided I could not let this heelflip business unfinished and went back to the bank spot instead. Finally, I got the heel flip, to my great satisfaction.
Now this made me think: I am 45, have a lovely wife and a decent job, living in one of the wealthiest countries of the world but a success/failure to flip a wooden toy on an incline decides whether my life is miserable or great. I guess I should not worry so much about stuff like this. Anyone can relate?
Anyway, heading out again later, got some slappies to do…
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I have this bank spot I go to on many Saturdays. In the past, every time I went, I got a heelflip on that bank, until three weeks ago, when I had to abandon deeply frustrated. Went again yesterday, and again, no heelflip. Now Sunday is my slappy day and you won‘t catch me flipping my board. But today I decided I could not let this heelflip business unfinished and went back to the bank spot instead. Finally, I got the heel flip, to my great satisfaction.
Now this made me think: I am 45, have a lovely wife and a decent job, living in one of the wealthiest countries of the world but a success/failure to flip a wooden toy on an incline decides whether my life is miserable or great. I guess I should not worry so much about stuff like this. Anyone can relate?
Anyway, heading out again later, got some slappies to do…
Lol big time. I would obsess over kickflips when I had sessions and now I try to not let it dictate my mood. My kickflip challenge helped me break through some of my hurdles so it's much easier to let it go now.
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Kickflipped on flat second try the other night.
I’m 53 years old and it felt fucking great.
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Had a 'session' for the first time in a few years yesterday, in this empty parking lot with some little gaps and a not-that-long waxed curb. Took my 8 year old who cruised around on her scooter. Was able to do all my standard stuff, and even jumped some little gaps which slightly surprised me being a few months shy of 46. Felt nice to know some stuff just takes a little bit of minor rust shaking to get back. I had a thought that if I can have a similar session at 50, it'd be pretty cool.
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Was at a spot under a highway overpass. There were some fledgling pigeons up against one of the pillars. Mad cute. Moved some cones so people wouldn't run into them.
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Got a few bs bluntslides.
Nothing fancy, nothing new, but a little something I wasn’t sure I could still do.
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Got a few bs bluntslides.
Nothing fancy, nothing new, but a little something I wasn’t sure I could still do.
Someone once said my stream of consciousness rant in this thread was like poetry but it didn't rhyme or flow like your post. Pure poetry this one.
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I sucked ass. Was just working on a kicker-box-whatever the hell it's called. Just really was doing a lot of shit foot placement landings and false starts. It was pretty embarrassing. I guess some days the brain just isn't working.
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The other day I showed up to the park and as I was saying hello to everyone, this kid walked up to me and asked if I recognized him. I did not, but it turned out he was a kid from years ago who me and my friends sorta took under our wing as he was just getting into skating. He grew so much I didn't recognize him and he got pretty good at skating, so that was a neat reunion.
Eventually he leaves, and as I'm sorta reflecting on the situation with a friend, another kid walks in and immediately asks if I remember him. Pretty similar situation, he grew up a lot so I didn't recognize him but I definitely remembered.
Weird that it happened twice. But cool!
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Went to Niagara falls so had to wake up before the family and skate the closest park. Great sesh one other old dude. Got some basics and the weather was amazing
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The other day I showed up to the park and as I was saying hello to everyone, this kid walked up to me and asked if I recognized him. I did not, but it turned out he was a kid from years ago who me and my friends sorta took under our wing as he was just getting into skating. He grew so much I didn't recognize him and he got pretty good at skating, so that was a neat reunion.
Eventually he leaves, and as I'm sorta reflecting on the situation with a friend, another kid walks in and immediately asks if I remember him. Pretty similar situation, he grew up a lot so I didn't recognize him but I definitely remembered.
Weird that it happened twice. But cool!
its like your 3 paths diverged and then converged, weird kizmit, universe is tellin u somethin
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Got my first fs flips in over 25 years tonight.
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I started working on fs smith grinds on a taller curb and realized I am not far from getting them bishes.
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my board landed on my big toe axle first on a fake front bigspin. The toenail separated from the nailed so I had to get it removed. It was almost fully grown back from the last time it happened 8 months ago. No skating for at least a week while the nailbed heals, but at least my knees will get a break. Earlier this week I also landed my first frontside nose slide that actually slid since I was a teenager
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Went straight to a mini ramp after work and got smoked on a tail stall bs revert... Slipped out and hit the flat full force on my hip. At least it was a wooden ramp..
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Went to QP/A-frame this morning as usual, but they were doing some construction on the park. Thankfully the local Team Pain park is only 10 minutes away, so I changed up the routine and headed there for an hour.
Felt kind of sluggish and didn't have any particular tricks in mind, so skated the hip for a little bit and got a hat trick:
-Halfcab heel
-Full cab
-Back heel
Worked up a decent sweat trying to nail those down. Spent the rest of the time working on nollie front 180 up the euro gap. Got a very sweaty make on my last try. Summer heat and humidity is getting brutal!
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Went straight to a mini ramp after work and got smoked on a tail stall bs revert... Slipped out and hit the flat full force on my hip. At least it was a wooden ramp..
My parks are all concrete which seems to be the trend... I long for wood ramps. Those are what I learned on when I was younger and you had to build your own in some weird older guy's backyard. Much softer landing than concrete. Learning again and I'm so hesitant because I don't want to take a smack on rock.
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Got another fs flip after yesterdays breakthrough. Stoked to have these back as they were my signature trick in the 90s.
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Dislocated my shoulder bad bad skate session
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Dislocated my shoulder bad bad skate session
I'm sorry pal. Get well soon.
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Dislocated my shoulder bad bad skate session
I'm sorry pal. Get well soon.
Yes bruh heal up soon!
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I just re-learned kickflips on flat like last month and been doing them more and more every sesh.
Last night and couple nights before that I got em first T.
Currently feeling myself haha.
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I had a hip replacement Sept 19th last year. I've been pushing for months but I just started ollieing the last few days. I hit a pump track yesterday then went rolling around in my neighborhood and ollied every manhole cover I came across and it was just as exciting as the first time. I am so stoked
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Trying to regain confidence post injury has been a challenge. Every session is a head fuck and I can't skate with other people at the moment. Been cruising, a few curb sessions and a mellow transition session here and there. Anyway, just about learned FS slappy crooks this morning First new trick post injury. And got my kick flips back. Things might be looking up.
...maybe...
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I had a hip replacement Sept 19th last year. I've been pushing for months but I just started ollieing the last few days. I hit a pump track yesterday then went rolling around in my neighborhood and ollied every manhole cover I came across and it was just as exciting as the first time. I am so stoked
Fuck yeah. Stoked for you.
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I had a hip replacement Sept 19th last year. I've been pushing for months but I just started ollieing the last few days. I hit a pump track yesterday then went rolling around in my neighborhood and ollied every manhole cover I came across and it was just as exciting as the first time. I am so stoked
Fuck yeah gnarred
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I just re-learned kickflips on flat like last month and been doing them more and more every sesh.
Last night and couple nights before that I got em first T.
Currently feeling myself haha.
Catching a flip is one of the most satisfying feelings, right?
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Skated some curbs with a homie after work. Got chick fil a with my lady after. Pretty sick
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Skated some curbs with a homie after work. Got chick fil a with my lady after. Pretty sick
Username checks out.
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There is an insane heat wave in eastern europe these days and i went skating from 7:30 to 9:00 this morning. I am stoked i relearned fs tail bigspin out, but next time i would go earlier coz the sweat in my eyes is unbearable.
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I just re-learned kickflips on flat like last month and been doing them more and more every sesh.
Last night and couple nights before that I got em first T.
Currently feeling myself haha.
Catching a flip is one of the most satisfying feelings, right?
Oh yeah especially after not having the feeling for years!!
I was seriously fine with not flipping my board ever again, I was like turning into a cruise type of dude and getting tech was the farthest thing from my mind.
I know kickflips on flat aren’t exactly tech but at age 53 I was like I don’t need to be cruising yet I can still do this shit it ain’t that hard I just needed to get the muscle memory back in effect and get used to jumping again.
You are right though, it’s one of the most satisfying things in skateboarding, popping a solid kickflip on flat and actually doing it not terribly feels like nothing else! Especially first T.
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Trying to regain confidence post injury has been a challenge. Every session is a head fuck and I can't skate with other people at the moment. Been cruising, a few curb sessions and a mellow transition session here and there. Anyway, just about learned FS slappy crooks this morning First new trick post injury. And got my kick flips back. Things might be looking up.
...maybe...
I feel you, dude.When I fucked up ankle and had to get surgery for it, skating for the first time after surgery, I almost wanted to quit. I was at my peak around that time and skated a ton, I couldn't believe learning all the basics was such pain in ass. It took years to get over the fear of commiting tricks, even the most basic ones I could do with ease before. It was mentally so hard for me I actually got depressed later. Eventually, I started feeling better both physically and mentally and found new ways to enjoy skating and I enjoy it more than ever.
My last session was skating downtown with my cruiser setup. I love that when you dont really plan your skating. You just go from spot to spot and do little tricks on whatever on the way. I think pushed more than 25km that day.
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Trying to regain confidence post injury has been a challenge. Every session is a head fuck and I can't skate with other people at the moment. Been cruising, a few curb sessions and a mellow transition session here and there. Anyway, just about learned FS slappy crooks this morning First new trick post injury. And got my kick flips back. Things might be looking up.
...maybe...
Any tips on the slappy fs crooks, I‘ve been trying them for months but still don‘t get them regularly and/or nicely.
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I was tripod filming myself for my yearly old man video and I sprained my ankle trying a nollie fs 180 off a drop. Sucks.
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Spent 3hrs trying to self-film a line in extreme humidity, and failed miserably. I need to leave the phone in the car until I’ve got shit down that’s worth filming.
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BEEN GETTING BACK 50'S ON FLAT AND DOWN BARS AND ITS ALL I WANT TO DO NOW
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My curb un-waxed it's self. Great for nose grinders bad for 5ohs. I just went faster but after like a few hits I stuck and flew forward.
Definitely got a pinched nerve still or again?
I met a girl too. At first I was like hmm but it seems I'm def not down.
I was thinking of saying hey if I fuck you really quick do you think you'd be able to never talk to me again afterwards? You seem kinda loud and your voice is breaking my brain. I'd definitely bend you over the bathroom sink rn and frost your donut if you promise you not hit me up tomorrow?
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I am new in here and I didn't see the rules of this site. English is not my main language and today I had the first skate session in a basketball court. Yeah, I am sooo newbie that I may be banned from this forum.
Anyway, this is my first post, I hope it's legal. I knew how to ride already coz I have a penny board. And, today I did shuvit. They were like "bs 90 shuvit fs 90 body varial" (if it makes sense lol) but I am ok with that for my first session.
edit: i had wrote "huvit".
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Went to a ramp jam and somehow when I set my board to drop in the coping was between my baseplate and hanger, ate shit dropping in and I think I tweaked my already fucked knee. Later in the week I skated a few miles to work from the train station on my cruiser and did some dirt skating.
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Gave a ridiculous slide show to a boy scouts troop and taught them to skate. That was so fun.
Post covid 11 year olds are like screaming feral animals, and I think the skating was good for them cuz it gave them a way to focus their energy and find some clarity in the chaos that is their internal monologue.
I was happy to see their scout membership so strong. Maybe about 25% girls now.
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Been raining like a bastard so I did a stationary flatground session in my garage.
Dude, I fucking can't skate standing still. I can barely keep an ollie under me if I'm stationary, and flip tricks are out of the question. I don't understand how people do it.
The only thing that was easier standing still was switch kickflips.
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Bittersweet. My kickflips are getting uglier by the day, on the flipside, I got my fs flips back.
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Realized that every time I skate doesn't have to be a big physical/mental battle of progression. Brought my new cruiser to the park to see what I can get away with on it. Was fun to try normal tricks on the big board with big wheels. Also just enjoyed the day with friends at the park.
Fyi extremely big wheels is the cheat code for wallies. Damn thing felt like a monster truck
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Had a really fun session skating makeshift spots in an industrial park on Sunday. Today I tried to skate my little manny pad, but it wasn’t working out. Then three sketchy old men came over to smoke and I immediately got out of there.
It’s funny because in my younger days I loved an audience, usually got me juiced to land shit. Now that I’m older with anxiety and things I don’t want stolen, nothing ruins a sesh for me quite like unwanted spectators.
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fell on my arse, still limping...
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Went to the same old place and did the same old noseslides.
Ever since I got fs noses on the round bar locked down I mess them up all the time on the ledge now. Go figure.
It was nice to get out there though.
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Went to the same old place and did the same old noseslides.
Ever since I got fs noses on the round bar locked down I mess them up all the time on the ledge now. Go figure.
It was nice to get out there though.
FS Noseslide on a round bar? That sounds gnarly to me.
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Went to the same old place and did the same old noseslides.
Ever since I got fs noses on the round bar locked down I mess them up all the time on the ledge now. Go figure.
It was nice to get out there though.
FS Noseslide on a round bar? That sounds gnarly to me.
I mean yeah maybe if I could sit on it like Lizard King down Hollywood 16 or the very underrated backwards flex-fit hat + chain workhorse skater Paul Machnau's ender in RDS/FSU/2002. Seriously look it up...
You just gotta get past the fear of overshooting into a fs boardslide which can be brutal on a ledge too if you're going fast and get all tangled up and fall backwards. Or alternatively not committing your full weight onto the nose and just slapping down some failed little rail spank. I finally found somewhere in between with a consistent little 1-foot rail plink to start infinite failed lines or two-piece combos...
It's the only other rail trick I have apart from fs boardslides. I can't even do normal boardslides and never 5050'd a rail lol. I'm definitely a weirdo though.
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There was some guy with a Pennywise hat (the band, to be clear) and a Come And Take It shirt with a rifle on it. He wasn't even skating, was just sitting at the park like a fucking creep while there was a youth skate day camp happening. Most Pennywise-fan thing you could be doing, fake punks.
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Tried FS 50-50 FS shove-it for the first time
Took me 3 tries to learn them
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Tried FS 50-50 FS shove-it for the first time
Took me 3 tries to learn them
Did you tucked you knee while rolling away?
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Tried FS 50-50 FS shove-it for the first time
Took me 3 tries to learn them
Knees were operating as usual
Arms flailing like crazy though
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When I got to the spot, it was raining. Cruised around with my rain board for an hour and then the rain stopped and the spot was dry, called the homie he should move his ass over.
3rd session with a new deck, 1st session with new shoes.
I hate all new skate stuff, except for bearings and bolts.
Board felt too stiff, shoes felt too stiff and grippy.
Played it safe and did my usual basic tricks and chatted with the homie about life and all that stuff.
Next session should be better.
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Rolled my ankle 6 weeks ago and went out today.
It still kinda hurts. I had the worst session. I could do all my slappy tricks but no flip tricks. Couldn't even Heelflip. I think it's because it still hurts and I'm afraid of taking myself out again for another few weeks that I didn't fully commit.
Bummed
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Had such a great session at the park tonight. I was coming close to my little 2 piece line I've been working on for ages it feels like. Frontside nose on a slanted round rail then bs 180 nosegrind end of the ledge. A BMXer dude who I had beef with not even long ago lit the park up for me cause it was getting fully dark and a couple of other people with vehicles there followed suit. It was pretty rad to get support from people who I wasn't even cool with like a month ago. Kept trying until I got a pretty good one that I was satisfied with after not too too long. When I got home another old dude who just started coming out again sent me a screengrab of it he captured while filming himself which was kinda cool too as I wasn't really trying to film it but it's nice to have a little memory of a good session. I like how it shows the small-town park dynamic too. We all roll/drink together and encourage each other no matter what your wheeled device of choice is.
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Lately they have been the same: Testing 2 new cameras I got, chillin' a lot with my homies and not skating that much but when I do everything (which is not much) works and feels great.
Can't complain.
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Had park to myself at 2pm on a weekday. Nice, quiet and relaxing. Till soccer mom pulled up and blasted all of the latest Taylor Swift songs from her Jeep while her kids team had soccer practice right next to where I was skating.
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it was cool
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Had such a great session at the park tonight. I was coming close to my little 2 piece line I've been working on for ages it feels like. Frontside nose on a slanted round rail then bs 180 nosegrind end of the ledge. A BMXer dude who I had beef with not even long ago lit the park up for me cause it was getting fully dark and a couple of other people with vehicles there followed suit. It was pretty rad to get support from people who I wasn't even cool with like a month ago. Kept trying until I got a pretty good one that I was satisfied with after not too too long. When I got home another old dude who just started coming out again sent me a screengrab of it he captured while filming himself which was kinda cool too as I wasn't really trying to film it but it's nice to have a little memory of a good session. I like how it shows the small-town park dynamic too. We all roll/drink together and encourage each other no matter what your wheeled device of choice is.
That‘s an awesome picture: you doing a great trick but all dudes in the corner looking into a mobile phone, missing the action going on in front of them.
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The people in the front are looking at dslr footage and the rest of them are probably just talking to each other. Most of them are pretty young. Probably got tired of watching me try the same tricks. I don't really like when everyone is watching me skate anyway. Either way, I thought it was nice that the person who initiated lighting up the park for me, the only person still skating, had no real reason to give a fuck but went out of their way to do a nice thing. Not sure if I even landed this one. An old friend who I hadn't seen there in ages reached out and sent me this low-quality screengrab but I liked how it looked. I guess he was filming himself doing some lip trick on this crusty little noping quarter everyone skates. It makes a silhouette that almost looks like an old torn photo at the bottom. And ironically the BMX guy with the lights is the most dark shadowy looking figure out of everyone.
Anyway, instead of being my usual curmudgeon self I've tried to be cool with everyone and not complain about their dogs or the shitty music they play etc. Even brought some park beers a few times. Almost all these people are awkward acquaintances I see every day and I'm trying to make it more bearable for everyone and apparently it's paying off. 2 part indulgent self-congratulatory shit post complete.
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Anyway, instead of being my usual curmudgeon self I've tried to be cool with everyone and not complain about their dogs or the shitty music they play etc. Even brought some park beers a few times.
this makes skating so much more fun
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Finally getting over my anxiety of skating around others. I normally stick to tennis court but the damn players have decided to use them since it’s summer.
Honestly, I see why there are no skaters on the streets in my town. We probably have one of the best DIYs in Ohio. I just pushed around, circling the park and no one paid attention to me. Someone even said they liked my Tiago’s.
Idk, just felt like I didn’t belong there since I don’t skate transition and can’t really do tricks. But it appears that as long as you keep moving/pay attention to the lines that others are doing, you’ll be fine.
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Had a killer session on Sunday. First in a skatepark, then at the underground Ikea parking lot.
I did a line with a fs 50 back 180 out on a ledge and when I landed on my board, my pinky toe pressed kinda hard against the inside of my fairly new shoes. It hurt a bit when that happened but I kept on skating for a few hours. Tuesday was, when I realized something feels weird with my right foot. Now my pinky toe hurts constantly and when I lift all my toes up from the ground, my whole foot hurts. Never had pain like that before and don't know if I should see a doctor about it.
Being 32 years old is really cool so far..
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Finally getting over my anxiety of skating around others. I normally stick to tennis court but the damn players have decided to use them since it’s summer.
Honestly, I see why there are no skaters on the streets in my town. We probably have one of the best DIYs in Ohio. I just pushed around, circling the park and no one paid attention to me. Someone even said they liked my Tiago’s.
Idk, just felt like I didn’t belong there since I don’t skate transition and can’t really do tricks. But it appears that as long as you keep moving/pay attention to the lines that others are doing, you’ll be fine.
Yes! It’s so rad you went…I felt the same way before just making myself go. “I’ll just be in the way” I told myself. I realized, like you said, keep it moving and stay out of the way and it’s smooth sailing. At the end of the day, we are all trying to skate. Hell, I’m 47 and look forward to skating with a couple dudes in their late 20s on my off Fridays…didn’t even know their names till like the fourth session. Keep going back!
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Finally getting over my anxiety of skating around others. I normally stick to tennis court but the damn players have decided to use them since it’s summer.
Honestly, I see why there are no skaters on the streets in my town. We probably have one of the best DIYs in Ohio. I just pushed around, circling the park and no one paid attention to me. Someone even said they liked my Tiago’s.
Idk, just felt like I didn’t belong there since I don’t skate transition and can’t really do tricks. But it appears that as long as you keep moving/pay attention to the lines that others are doing, you’ll be fine.
Totally! I’ll keep going. I just realized that I’d probably get more judgmental glances at the tennis courts. At least at the park they understand what we’re trying to do. And going at an earlier time kinda had other skaters there who were just trying to improve too. Like no one was ripping around the park. And no one came up to me saying, “Do a kickflip.” 😆
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Had a good time
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practiced back smith, front nose grind, backside flips, back bluntslide
backtails on transition
really good sesh man
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Got warmed up then a BMX guy came and just monopolized the whole place. You'd start a line and he'd decide he wanted to do it but the opposite direction into you. Whatever. That's basically 80% of my experience with BMXers, I typically just leave as soon as they show up. We're bad enough at communication and consideration, then add a 25lb rocket.
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I'm still angry at that guy who saw me slam.
Back 50s are dangerous. Mother fucker Is hip and was definitely trying to kook.
I haven't skated since because of the 2 shows this weekend. I don't wanna get hurt and have to jump around with a 11lb guitar two days in a row.
But yeah...
I'm really upset.
It feels like I'm 15 in a strange town and mofos have heard of my legend but I can only get on foot on the bloard on the basic ledge isms....
I thought you said he was good?
He usually is good at skating but clearly he's been doing mostly drugs and crimes lately.
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Classic old head session in a park & ride lot- slappies on a shitty curb, someone drags a ledge they build, and games of skate with rules like "only 1 flip trick".
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Solo mission today after work. Knee has been and still is fucked (recovering from an ACL sprain) but its August and the summer of no skating had me bummed out - so just small ollies and manuals with my balance all out of wack as the knee still felt "wobbly"...so damn frustrating and yet so good for the soul at the same time. Now time for a beer - and a mental note to keep up with my physio.
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Went to Stalin, skated for 10 min, got tendinitis.
I'm blaming the shoes, AS-1 are really flexible on the heel. 0 support.
That's what I got for betraying my beloved 808
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Went out on a solo night street mission. Shed some blood to get a couple basic ledge tricks on the only marble ledge in town while a couple bar kooks were watching and giving out unsolicited trick tips. Those hill type planters that start out average size and get tallish quickly. Good times. Feet are sore as I trudge home but mission accomplished.
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Skated flat ground in front of my infant son while we were killing time before bed.
Landed no-comply FS bigspin like 3rd try, without ever having attempted it before. I know, i know, no complies are low-mids, but the move felt pretty rad. I'm pretty terrible at bigspin maneuvers overall, so I was hyped to land something new.
Made me want to work on the BS version, but I'm currently not Gonz enough for that
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Skated flat ground in front of my infant son while we were killing time before bed.
Landed no-comply FS bigspin like 3rd try, without ever having attempted it before. I know, i know, no complies are low-mids, but the move felt pretty rad. I'm pretty terrible at bigspin maneuvers overall, so I was hyped to land something new.
Made me want to work on the BS version, but I'm currently not Gonz enough for that
Are you wanting to step down heel side or toe side to do the bs big spin ?
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Skated flat ground in front of my infant son while we were killing time before bed.
Landed no-comply FS bigspin like 3rd try, without ever having attempted it before. I know, i know, no complies are low-mids, but the move felt pretty rad. I'm pretty terrible at bigspin maneuvers overall, so I was hyped to land something new.
Made me want to work on the BS version, but I'm currently not Gonz enough for that
Are you wanting to step down heel side or toe side to do the bs big spin ?
Toeside. I'm decent at no-comply BS 180's and 3's this way, but my feet and brain get jumbled when I try to bigspin it.
Also haven't put a ton of time into em, so that's a factor
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Mostly skate for fun now , got two day jobs
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damn i wanna be like shin sanbongi
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Skated flat at the local tennis court. Worked on some manny/ nose manny. Couple pop shuvs, couple frontside 180s. Couple backside 180s which are more difficult for me. Couple half cabs. Need to get back the kick flip and start workin on tres. Beautiful weather had a great time!
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I had a few abysmal sessions, can‘t do stuff I usually get every time. My board disintegrates, I‘ll set up a fresh one on Thursday but already dread I will skate even worse as it‘s an ever so slightly different shape (Quasi twin 8.38 vs Ishod twin 8.38)…
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went to a new local park which is kinda sick, good manny pad, big long curb, banks, smooth concrete that sounds sick when you ollie on it. Got chatting to a dude there my age who was ripping. Turns out we knew heaps of the same guys and would have skated together a few times in the 90s at some really random, small places. Skatings a small world, especially so in the mid 90s. Lovely, wholesome stuff.
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Skated the local park. I had some random local start a sentence with "I'm not racist, but..." It was not a fun experience.
Re-learned my lesson about why I should never interact with other human beings.
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Skated lakeland skatepark in florida. It was 100+degrees(f) out. They have a long flatbar there. Figured out how to sit on front board slides and slid the whole rail.
The worse part was I didn't bring any water and the water fountain was just dribbling water out and was boiling hot so I had to keep buying gatorade out of the vending machines. They somehow didn't have any water stocked in them. And I live on the east coast of florida. The drive was 3 hours and I have no ac in my car. Holy shit was it miserable.
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Skated the local park. I had some random local start a sentence with "I'm not racist, but..." It was not a fun experience.
Re-learned my lesson about why I should never interact with other human beings.
I was skating a park by me that's less popular, and there's a regular there who struck up a conversation with me. He was a little off but polite enough until I mentioned the nearby DIY park that I go to more often. His attitude immediately changed and he got on me about how all the locals there are assholes to him. I thought his story was odd until I eventually learned that the one time he went there he kept dropping the n-bomb and eventually got confronted about it.
Sometimes skateboarding can have a lil gatekeeping, as a treat.
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Skated the new pump track right outside Seattle. Never skated one before but thought they always looked fun. Can now confirm they are quite fun.
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had a lot of fun skating and chopping it up with someone from an earlier generation whose skating i admire. they left and i some young, 15 or 16 yr old kid comes up to me and is like "is your name-------?" and they said my name. I had no idea who this kid was and they said "i skated with you in x,y,z city last month." I wasn't in that city and haven't been in 2 years! We agreed that he skated with another dude, with my name and many tattoos in x,y,z city.
I then jammed on a low, long triangle curb sort of thing, grinding onto, over, and down. The kid who thought he knew me and his little brother were trying to film with a phone and the little brother is just standing there, static. I went over and asked if I could show them how to try something different and explained angles, framing, and all that shit. it was cool to see them try different filming techniques before i dipped.
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More plaza skating. Fell in love with a new shape too.
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Haven't posted here in a little bit, but I have been skating consistently (1-2x a week) despite the absolutely brutal heat.
Went filming with a friend at the park for a couple of hours on Sunday. Didn't feel remotely recovered until late yesterday afternoon. Legs and abs completely toast.
Went to a-frame/QP park this morning and felt pretty uninspired just pushing around, so I decided to try and chuck a backside flip over the a-frame rail to get some excitement pumping. Landed a few shitty ones, then stomped a decent one but realized after I wasn't recording. Broke my board in efforts to reproduce the good make. Somehow landed a board breaker-maker on the very last try I was going to give myself.
I have been pushing myself pretty hard this year to reclaim some of my old tricks and ability to jump over/down shit, but I can tell my body and mind are getting burnt out on trying to progress every session. I am fucking terrible at just having "fun" on my skateboard, and it's starting to bum me out. [/rant]
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Got to the park bout 9 after getting the kids down and sorting the hoose. Gets dark about 10 just now so wasn't planning much. Local Don of the park was just heading off as I turned up. Unlocked the lights for me and said he'd be back later on to shut them down. Got the park all to myself till the back of one. Absolute bliss. Started working on some simple ledge tricks (I'm a ramp kinda guy) and got some nice fast lines in the bowl. Started working on some flat bar shit tae. Smashed my shin. Felt alive. Smoked a joint with the Don when he came back and skated a bit of flat. Mackkers and a smoke in the shed while watching lakais Bubble. Decent but didnt get me as hyped as some other videos that have come out recently. A good good day indeed
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I grabbed my board after a few beers and headed towards a curved curb by my house. Did about three slappies and decided fuck this Texas heat and went back to chill in the AC. Yes I suppose I pussied out but 104 degrees is not ideal for me.
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Skated flat ground in front of my infant son while we were killing time before bed.
Landed no-comply FS bigspin like 3rd try, without ever having attempted it before. I know, i know, no complies are low-mids, but the move felt pretty rad. I'm pretty terrible at bigspin maneuvers overall, so I was hyped to land something new.
Made me want to work on the BS version, but I'm currently not Gonz enough for that
Like this? Instep back on the board too late though
https://instagram.com/p/CTxWlHzF7QF/
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I grabbed my board after a few beers and headed towards a curved curb by my house. Did about three slappies and decided fuck this Texas heat and went back to chill in the AC. Yes I suppose I pussied out but 104 degrees is not ideal for me.
Skated in 106 yesterday myself, I feel your pain dude. Long day of work and the sesh still made the day better at least
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Skated flat ground in front of my infant son while we were killing time before bed.
Landed no-comply FS bigspin like 3rd try, without ever having attempted it before. I know, i know, no complies are low-mids, but the move felt pretty rad. I'm pretty terrible at bigspin maneuvers overall, so I was hyped to land something new.
Made me want to work on the BS version, but I'm currently not Gonz enough for that
Like this? Instep back on the board too late though
https://instagram.com/p/CTxWlHzF7QF/
100%! Hyped to give these a shot on my next session
I've got an unhealthy obsession with toe-side no complies, fun party trick to show off when the dork tricks come out
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Skated flat ground in front of my infant son while we were killing time before bed.
Landed no-comply FS bigspin like 3rd try, without ever having attempted it before. I know, i know, no complies are low-mids, but the move felt pretty rad. I'm pretty terrible at bigspin maneuvers overall, so I was hyped to land something new.
Made me want to work on the BS version, but I'm currently not Gonz enough for that
Like this? Instep back on the board too late though
https://instagram.com/p/CTxWlHzF7QF/
100%! Hyped to give these a shot on my next session
I've got an unhealthy obsession with toe-side no complies, fun party trick to show off when the dork tricks come out
I find them easier than the FS version in banks, but harder on flat.
Bs no comply always looks soooo good
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Skated flat ground in front of my infant son while we were killing time before bed.
Landed no-comply FS bigspin like 3rd try, without ever having attempted it before. I know, i know, no complies are low-mids, but the move felt pretty rad. I'm pretty terrible at bigspin maneuvers overall, so I was hyped to land something new.
Made me want to work on the BS version, but I'm currently not Gonz enough for that
Like this? Instep back on the board too late though
https://instagram.com/p/CTxWlHzF7QF/
100%! Hyped to give these a shot on my next session
I've got an unhealthy obsession with toe-side no complies, fun party trick to show off when the dork tricks come out
I find them easier than the FS version in banks, but harder on flat.
Bs no comply always looks soooo good
i was goofing around a few days ago and managed to do a no-comply cab on a bank, that was an unexpected one
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Skated flat ground in front of my infant son while we were killing time before bed.
Landed no-comply FS bigspin like 3rd try, without ever having attempted it before. I know, i know, no complies are low-mids, but the move felt pretty rad. I'm pretty terrible at bigspin maneuvers overall, so I was hyped to land something new.
Made me want to work on the BS version, but I'm currently not Gonz enough for that
Like this? Instep back on the board too late though
https://instagram.com/p/CTxWlHzF7QF/
100%! Hyped to give these a shot on my next session
I've got an unhealthy obsession with toe-side no complies, fun party trick to show off when the dork tricks come out
I find them easier than the FS version in banks, but harder on flat.
Bs no comply always looks soooo good
i was goofing around a few days ago and managed to do a no-comply cab on a bank, that was an unexpected one
Hell yes.
Never tried a no comply going fakie. In my mind this screams totally stupid looking slams ahead.
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first session after work yesterday since I dislocated my shoulder a month ago. I just skated the bowled off mini ramp and adjacent quarters and I think it's going to be that way for at least another month. It felt so good to just be rolling around with my friends. I really need to remind myself to keep it chill and not send myself back to square
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After a week of terrible sessions I have decided to take a break from my daily routine. I have been skating daily or almost for 1.5 years now and fell into a routine, to the point it became more of a burden than a pleasure. Of course, landing tricks, in particular learning new stuff is super gratifying - struggling with the same tricks not making any progress, less so.
I will try and only go out when I really want to and then only do the stuff I really want to. Let's see how that goes but it already feels like a relief just to have taken this decision.
What do you think, lads?
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After a week of terrible sessions I have decided to take a break from my daily routine. I have been skating daily or almost for 1.5 years now and fell into a routine, to the point it became more of a burden than a pleasure. Of course, landing tricks, in particular learning new stuff is super gratifying - struggling with the same tricks not making any progress, less so.
I will try and only go out when I really want to and then only do the stuff I really want to. Let's see how that goes but it already feels like a relief just to have taken this decision.
What do you think, lads?
I feel this. A lot of my skating these days is just trying to retain stuff. I have noticed that trying something new is always way more fun now when it's spontaneous vs. something premeditated.
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So it was spring of 2004….
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After a week of terrible sessions I have decided to take a break from my daily routine. I have been skating daily or almost for 1.5 years now and fell into a routine, to the point it became more of a burden than a pleasure. Of course, landing tricks, in particular learning new stuff is super gratifying - struggling with the same tricks not making any progress, less so.
I will try and only go out when I really want to and then only do the stuff I really want to. Let's see how that goes but it already feels like a relief just to have taken this decision.
What do you think, lads?
I usually just to work on riding switch when I get stuck in a routine lull. As in, skate switch to/from the spot, revert/halfcab to try the trick (if is regular), then skate back switch.
Helps give me some strange sort of focus and breaks up the same old thing, plus training switch is always good.
On the flip side, I'm terrible about wanting a trick and deciding to go make it happen, my legs just wanna flow....
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Ran out of good socks, had to wear shitty polyester blend ones that were sliding around inside my shoe, tightened up my laces at the top to try to compensate.
Now my shoes don’t feel right and I think I have plantar fasciitis in my pushing foot.
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I just did 3 kickflips in my closet
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I just did 3 kickflips in my closet
After reading some great tales of recent sessions, THIS made me laugh out loud.
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I just did 3 kickflips in my closet
Some days I just need to stand on the fucker still. I also count taking a part my skateboard a session
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After a week of terrible sessions I have decided to take a break from my daily routine. I have been skating daily or almost for 1.5 years now and fell into a routine, to the point it became more of a burden than a pleasure. Of course, landing tricks, in particular learning new stuff is super gratifying - struggling with the same tricks not making any progress, less so.
I will try and only go out when I really want to and then only do the stuff I really want to. Let's see how that goes but it already feels like a relief just to have taken this decision.
What do you think, lads?
I usually just to work on riding switch when I get stuck in a routine lull. As in, skate switch to/from the spot, revert/halfcab to try the trick (if is regular), then skate back switch.
Helps give me some strange sort of focus and breaks up the same old thing, plus training switch is always good.
On the flip side, I'm terrible about wanting a trick and deciding to go make it happen, my legs just wanna flow....
Skipped my first Saturday skate session without important grounds in a very long time. Instead, I got up at 3am and walked the forest for 3.5 hours, then I went to the thrift market and bought a used trumpet, which I cleaned and played. I also washed my car. I feel ok, I think.
On topic: I skated to the thrift market. Did no tricks tho, because I carried a used trumpet.
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Short, mellow, and hot. 110+ degree weather ain't fun. Taking a break until fall.
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With work, life (just had to get a new car), responsibilities, the heat and taking care of my one and half year old daughter, I haven’t had too many sessions lately. That being said I do usually get a little session on flat at least once a week after I put her down to bed at 7 pm. (Hopefully along with another session here and there at a spot during the week but I normally get at least a session on flat if I don’t get anything else)
After putting her down last night I had a little session on my quasi egg since it was closer to the door. I don’t skate enough to really stray from my ideal 8.5x32.125x14.25 boxy quasi/ any ps stix boxy shape set up I normally skate, but I still had fun. It has like a 13.75 wheel base and I think my legs are too long for that but it might just be that I suck lol. Either way I’ll probably give the deck to a buddy because I know I like the boxy shapes because it gives a corner to scoop.
Had a fun little flat session. Did my normal warm up of all the shoves. Then after all the shoves, I do a kickflip, 360 flip then nollie flip. Then I just mess around and do whatever I’m feeling. Did somethings I hadn’t tried in a little bit and it was fun.
It was hot and I didn’t really skate that long but I didn’t expect to sweat that much. It looked like I went swimming lol. The ground is not the best and there’s rocks and sticks everywhere but it’s way way way better than nothing. I got my feet tangled in a nollie shuvit kickflip/ nollie varial flip and landed on my back on some rocks and my wife shouted out to ask if I was okay lol thought that was pretty funny. Either way skating its way fun even if you’re not skating your best.
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I went to the park at sunset cause it is way too fucking hot outside.
I tightened my trucks right before and this was a great decision. I felt way way better on my board.
However, some kid came to park and started using the hip as a slide. The mom did nothing to protect her kid from getting run over or fucking up the flow of the park. The kid was told to move, he moved for a minute and went back to using the hip as a slide. Super annoying since the park doesn't have lights and a lot of time was wasted by this kid being on one the thing I came to skate.
I've started pulling parents aside and saying, "Your kid is going to get hurt" and then explaining the flow of the park. Parents have always been shitty, but I wish they'd get less shitty.
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Skated the park closest to my place that I never skate because it’s tiny and janky with uneven ground. Though I feel like I should just embrace the suck and go there more often. Got a few fs grinds on the 5ft mini, which is funny, because in my younger years I wouldn’t even try that, but now I’m more freaked out by ledges. Guess the stereotype about older dudes and transition is hard to escape.
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Shit day. After a week of rain, I decided to get on my board today even though I was exhausted from work and wanted to take a nap instead. But I couldn't get anything right, so I just messed around with no complies.
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I haven’t been skateboarding much lately, been more into running and also just doing nothing
but I visited our local skateshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina, N2Flow, on Sunday
skated in the parking lot for maybe half an hour
I recently switched my OJ mini super juices back on and was too lazy to change out of my Birkenstocks and my friend wanted to play a game of SKATE in them haha
I pulled off a kickflip and an insane 360° flip in them, fiftied the box, slid the slider bar frontside and backside
mellow stuff, it just felt good to be rolling around with a homie
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Muggy ass florida weather. Almost 20 years in the game and can't figure kickflip nose mannys. So many tries where I either lean to far back because I'm scared of dipping the nose and hucking my body in front of me. Or I do just that.
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I just did 3 kickflips in my closet
Some days I just need to stand on the fucker still. I also count taking a part my skateboard a session
Fucking sweat everytime I grip and set up a board.
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finally got below 105 degrees yesterday so i got out and skated all day. learned fs slappys which i'm pretty stoked on. i've always had them bs so finally figuring out fs felt good, i think they look cooler and feel better tbh. the weather is pretty nice today too so i'll probably get out again at some point
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flatground at night in georgia
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I had a slappy session on Sunday which was fun because I was messing around with two very different set ups. Somehow I stumbled forward on a bail and, for the first time in my life, actually fell on my face. Got light bruises on nose and chin and a bloody upper lip (inside and out) but got lucky the teeth didn‘t chip. I look now like a street boxer. Luckily I am off on holidays for two weeks so my boss or coworker don‘t get the pleasure to tell me stuff like „I told you to wear a helmet“… Having some time off the board right now, it‘s in the trunk tho and might come out on Friday when I get to Hamburg.
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Little solo slappy session the other night after 8 months off with a nasty knee injury, local underground shopping center carpark curb that is super buttery and long. Definitely feeling rusty but man it was good to get back on the board. Picked back up a few tricks, but definitely have lost a lot more. Heading back over over the next couple of nights hopefully. Injuries suck man.
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Asphalt BMX pump track board did not leave the ground, 100 degrees so I sweated like a hostage. It was glorious and not a soul in sight.
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I had a slappy session on Sunday which was fun because I was messing around with two very different set ups. Somehow I stumbled forward on a bail and, for the first time in my life, actually fell on my face. Got light bruises on nose and chin and a bloody upper lip (inside and out) but got lucky the teeth didn‘t chip. I look now like a street boxer. Luckily I am off on holidays for two weeks so my boss or coworker don‘t get the pleasure to tell me stuff like „I told you to wear a helmet“… Having some time off the board right now, it‘s in the trunk tho and might come out on Friday when I get to Hamburg.
You'll fit right in with the crooks at Hauptbahnhof ;D .
Hit me up if you need any recommendations or want to go skate!
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I had a slappy session on Sunday which was fun because I was messing around with two very different set ups. Somehow I stumbled forward on a bail and, for the first time in my life, actually fell on my face. Got light bruises on nose and chin and a bloody upper lip (inside and out) but got lucky the teeth didn‘t chip. I look now like a street boxer. Luckily I am off on holidays for two weeks so my boss or coworker don‘t get the pleasure to tell me stuff like „I told you to wear a helmet“… Having some time off the board right now, it‘s in the trunk tho and might come out on Friday when I get to Hamburg.
You'll fit right in with the crooks at Hauptbahnhof ;D .
Hit me up if you need any recommendations or want to go skate!
I thought I might try a few slappies at the Heiliggeistfeld, are the curbs any good? I saw a few clips on youtube that looked promising.
Not sure I‘ll be skating at all or if I will try and get frustrated after five minutes (I‘m a lunatic bastard) so I won‘t have you come meet me for nothing but thanks for offering, it means a lot.
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I thought I might try a few slappies at the Heiliggeistfeld, are the curbs any good? I saw a few clips on youtube that looked promising.
Not sure I‘ll be skating at all or if I will try and get frustrated after five minutes (I‘m a lunatic bastard) so I won‘t have you come meet me for nothing but thanks for offering, it means a lot.
The curbs are great but unfortunately they're not skateable while the Sommerdom is going on (that's ending on Aug. 20th, so you might get lucky if you stay for longer than just the weekend).
Let me know if you do get the itch to roll around, I can handle lunacy just fine ;) .
To stay on topic: I ran out of Ishod 8.5 TTs and can't get that shape anywhere at the moment, so I'm now on a quest to find a new go-to shape for my main setup until the next Real drop comes along. I gave my symmetrical Heroin 8.88 egg a shot at the park yesterday, which I love for slappies and flatground, but I'm really struggling with the tapered kicks on bigger ledges and in transition. I'm gonna go with the Ishod 8.38 TT today and see how that works out. I love skating symmetrical shapes and can't picture myself going back to popsicles, but I do miss having much more options to choose from.
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I thought I might try a few slappies at the Heiliggeistfeld, are the curbs any good? I saw a few clips on youtube that looked promising.
Not sure I‘ll be skating at all or if I will try and get frustrated after five minutes (I‘m a lunatic bastard) so I won‘t have you come meet me for nothing but thanks for offering, it means a lot.
The curbs are great but unfortunately they're not skateable while the Sommerdom is going on (that's ending on Aug. 20th, so you might get lucky if you stay for longer than just the weekend).
Let me know if you do get the itch to roll around, I can handle lunacy just fine ;) .
To stay on topic: I ran out of Ishod 8.5 TTs and can't get that shape anywhere at the moment, so I'm now on a quest to find a new go-to shape for my main setup until the next Real drop comes along. I gave my symmetrical Heroin 8.88 egg a shot at the park yesterday, which I love for slappies and flatground, but I'm really struggling with the tapered kicks on bigger ledges and in transition. I'm gonna go with the Ishod 8.38 TT today and see how that works out. I love skating symmetrical shapes and can't picture myself going back to popsicles, but I do miss having much more options to choose from.
D'oh, I'm only there on Friday, on Saturday I take the Halunder Jet to Heligoland in the morning. Any slappy curbs in the City near Hafen?
The Ishod 8.38 is ok but I never got completely happy with them (had two back to back). I now ride the Quasi 8.38 twin (Justin Henry), which I like more (even if I still suck on it), it feels shorter but only the wheelbase is a hair shorter.
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Finally felt like I had some spring in my legs today. Amazing what a temperature lift of 5c does. There's always dead or dying bees on the concrete at this park though, poor little fuckheads. RIP us, I guess.
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D'oh, I'm only there on Friday, on Saturday I take the Halunder Jet to Heligoland in the morning. Any slappy curbs in the City near Hafen?
Damn. No, not that I know of. (I think @Frank lives somewhere around here too, maybe he has some secret slappy spots up his sleeve!?)
Anyway, have a great trip! Heligoland is rad.
I ended up giving the egg another chance yesterday and managed to do several personal nbd flip tricks, but also failed to land many of my ledge basics. I feel madness starting to creep in again.
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The lights at my local were finally installed so I went for a night sesh. Warmed up and started throwing some nollie heels at the manny pad, because I want to do a nollie heel nosemanual. Got two really good nollie heels onto the pad in a row. Starting feeling like this might be the sesh it goes down. Meanwhile there's like a dozen local hellions on bikes, scooters, or just running around and this park is smaller than a single tennis court. It's tiny. Two serious bmx kids that I've seen around the other parks in the area show up to do fly outs out of the bowl. I'm rolling up for a manual to get back to the other side while this bike douche is flying at me. I lose my concentration and mildly roll the my ankle on a switch nose manny, which is a really easy trick for me. That ends my session, ends my nollie heel nose manny attempts, and potentially the rest of my week of skating. Oh and never mind that the park rules clearly state there are no bikes allowed because it's so small.
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for the first time in 23+ years in skateboarding, today i did my first backside lipslide on the local's flatrail. i'm stoked, it always was such a scary trick for me on rails especially but i managed to get one quite quick in a couple of tries. cool.
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fried af with the homie we waxed the coping knowing the dangers we had been foretold. The genesis grinds were intimidating and scary, but with time, we learned to control the power. Fakie krooks were bested. other people were not stoked.
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My friend who’s a bit of a local legend moved back in town so it’s been sick to skate with him again and watch him destroy the park like old times. I’ve played him in skate like 20 times over the years and never won but today I finally beat him.
Also did a few switch tres and felt like guy Haley issac
This nice younger dude is also learning tres and he’s quickly getting good at them. Gets me so stoked watching him learn. He’s been asking me for tips for months and it’s cool my advice has payed off
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Slipped out on some longish fakie back tails. Starting to get the feeling of sliding them. Learned fs hurricane to regs on the ledge, yeah I know kinda lame ledge trick, but it felt pretty cool and they make crazy grind marks. After landing the first one I more confidently approached the ledge and fully slipped out in the wax and died. Gashed my shin open real good. Still a good sesh though.
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Found a sick spot in the industrial park. Mellow-ish bank behind a warehouse, and there was an old metal shelf by the dumpster that I set up as a ledge into bank. Reasonably smooth asphalt ground, it’s way up on a hill overlooking a lake, and since it’s Sunday there was nobody around.
Tried for two hours to film the most basic tricks and failed miserably. Not stoked.
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I hit the tiniest little rock at the absolute worst time (right in that mid-setup/pop moment) yesterday and I went flying. I slammed like a 200-pound sack of potatoes ;D It was extra painful because the zipper on my shorts got momentarily embedded in my hip, but it reminded me of that gnarly Caswell Berry footage where his jean rivets popped through his skin. Was that Bag of Suck extras?
I'm fine though, just a little sore :D Sesh was fun otherwise
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I broke my middlefinger. Glad that it was my left hand.
I've had like a month long gap from skating during this summer and I went to do some warming up couple of days ago.
I'm going into the first bs slappy and I end up flying over to the flat and I can see it in bullet time, my finger just catching in all the impact. I can't recall if it bent too much
I shake it off. I could still move the hand and all the fingers without any issues. After a day the finger got so swollen that I had to show it at hospital
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Skated some curbs and flat. Working on going faster both fs and bs for slappy's and sliding my noseslides farther.
Felt good after I was warmed up, a little sore from skating my old local the day before. I took a vacation day Fri and went out skating in morning which I almost never do.
May start trying to do that more often, I had the park all to myself minus the 2 drunk homeless lurkers on the corner flat bar asking for ciggys for almost an hr.
Not sure I can be team 7am, but maybe team 9:30am ;)
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I skated on Heligoland today. I sucked but the scenery was stunning.
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Sunday. Session was solid. 1pm-8pm. Began skating in soho and hit every little thing I could find in the vicinity. Ended at union square. Buttery heelflips today.
Skating a heated wheel “rat rage”, 149 hollow Indy’s, bones stf’s
Watched for a moment at Washington square dudes were skating flat and doing shit over a fallen steel barricade by the arch. Lots of fakie which was cool.
Passed by supreme. The line to go in was very long. I wanted to get something but said fuck it. Another skater was there, he was cool. He said to me “fuck this line, right!?” That was sick. I agreed with him.
The ramp adjacent to that building by Lafayette that Tyshawn Ollied over has been skate stopped. They nailed thick steel mesh onto it to slow anyone that tries anything there.
Good vibes to y’all. heal up if youre injured, and good sessions to all🤙
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Sunday. Session was solid. 1pm-8pm. Began skating in soho and hit every little thing I could find in the vicinity. Ended at union square. Buttery heelflips today.
Skating a heated wheel “rat rage”, 149 hollow Indy’s, bones stf’s
Watched for a moment at Washington square dudes were skating flat and doing shit over a fallen steel barricade by the arch. Lots of fakie which was cool.
Passed by supreme. The line to go in was very long. I wanted to get something but said fuck it. Another skater was there, he was cool. He said to me “fuck this line, right!?” That was sick. I agreed with him.
The ramp adjacent to that building by Lafayette that Tyshawn Ollied over has been skate stopped. They nailed thick steel mesh onto it to slow anyone that tries anything there.
Good vibes to y’all. heal up if youre injured, and good sessions to all🤙
Any intel on how to get those buttery heelflips? I have them but it‘s always a huge battle to get a halfway decent specimen.
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I usually only get to skate once a week at max, because my body sucks and I am way too old. Over the course of the last ten days, I managed to skate four times. Felt like being 13 again. Summertime, hanging out with friends, slowed by the heat. Tons of soda, ice cream and innocent skate sessions without any madness or trying to prove yourself something.
Consider me incredibly stoked - although everything hurts now and I’m not sure if I got a sore Achilles tendon out of it
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I usually only get to skate once a week at max, because my body sucks and I am way too old. Over the course of the last ten days, I managed to skate four times. Felt like being 13 again. Summertime, hanging out with friends, slowed by the heat. Tons of soda, ice cream and innocent skate sessions without any madness or trying to prove yourself something.
Consider me incredibly stoked - although everything hurts now and I’m not sure if I got a sore Achilles tendon out of it
This is how I was feeling before I bruised my right heel. Finally got past it and exploded my shin the other day which should be good ina day or two but now my left achilles bothering the hell outta me. Couldn't just finish off the summer injury free of course haha. Useless aging body failing me again.
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I usually only get to skate once a week at max, because my body sucks and I am way too old. Over the course of the last ten days, I managed to skate four times. Felt like being 13 again. Summertime, hanging out with friends, slowed by the heat. Tons of soda, ice cream and innocent skate sessions without any madness or trying to prove yourself something.
Consider me incredibly stoked - although everything hurts now and I’m not sure if I got a sore Achilles tendon out of it
This is how I was feeling before I bruised my right heel. Finally got past it and exploded my shin the other day which should be good ina day or two but now my left achilles bothering the hell outta me. Couldn't just finish off the summer injury free of course haha. Useless aging body failing me again.
Yeah. Would love to have a summer again without the looming feeling of „is this the thing that will stop me from skating for the next weeks“.
Fuck getting old.
But i must say, that i made peace with hanging out at the local diy without skating. Still anlogt of good vibes to be had and getting stoked on friends landing tricks and just hanging out
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Hey, Easy
I just try my best to pop them high, stay centered and land bolts. I think it helps to do them over something or off a curb.
Also, I use trucks that are less than the width of the deck. (not too much narrower). I believe that it makes the rotation feel very centered.
7.75 trucks on an 8” or
8.0 truck on an 8.5”
8.5 trucks on a 9 for example
P.S. <3 Matt Hensley
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Couldn’t get into it, slipped out on a warm up trick and kind of shook Me.
Happy to see the boys out on a Sunday though, maybe the next one will feel more like me.
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I did a nollie bs flip and a swagged out tre on a really steep and short bank at one of my locals.
Got me really hyped cuz I have been thinking about both of those tricks for awhile now
after that i smoked a fat spliff and played bo2 with my homies
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Hey, Easy
I just try my best to pop them high, stay centered and land bolts. I think it helps to do them over something or off a curb.
Also, I use trucks that are less than the width of the deck. (not too much narrower). I believe that it makes the rotation feel very centered.
7.75 trucks on an 8” or
8.0 truck on an 8.5”
8.5 trucks on a 9 for example
P.S. <3 Matt Hensley
Cheers bruh, I ride 144s on 8.38, can‘t the setup then, but I already knew it wasn‘t. Yeah, getting a good pop is important.
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Landed a BS flip first try on a new deck after getting absolutely wrecked on one during a game of SKATE last week, i swear it's one of the worst tricks to primo when you're fully committed.
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Got a flat ground session last night after putting my daughter to bed at 7 pm. Doing all the shoves as a warm up has really been helpful in getting myself feeling better especially since I’ve only been getting like one session a week with how busy I’ve been.
My buddy does all the Ollie’s and 180s as a warm up and I did that too and it felt good. It feels good getting a first try 360 flip when I’m only skating once a week these days. Lots of things worked right away so I only had to do one. Good feeling first try heel flip. Good feeling switch flip.
Then the sun went down so I had a beer out back with my wife and stood on my board in the grass when I went to pick up my board it had a good amount of dew on it which I kind thought was odd because it wasn’t in the grass long but I wiped it off and brought it in. It was fine though. Hoping to have a session at an actual spot soon or at least take my box out or something. Getting better at time management. I miss skating with my friends since we have a lot more responsibilities now that we’re older but we have a group chat so we try to virtually skate with each other so I can take flat ground requests or send them requests when I know they’re skating a spot or just on flat or something.
Either way it’s always fun to get out there. Happy sessions mi amigos.
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Spent the weekend trying to get a fakie pop shuv over this thigh high rail no one skates at my local park. Stuck it multiple times but never had the strength to roll away thanks to 100F degree weather. Hoping I can pull it this weekend after letting my body recover.
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Spent the weekend trying to get a fakie pop shuv over this thigh high rail no one skates at my local park. Stuck it multiple times but never had the strength to roll away thanks to 100F degree weather. Hoping I can pull it this weekend after letting my body recover.
Years ago for months I tried to fakie bigspin over a tall flatbar at my old local. I never landed it but I had to throw down switch to get speed which eventually led me to pushing and skating switch 24/7. It’s the best thing I ever did for my skate progression and it all started from me battling that fakie bigspin which I never even landed haha
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My car broke down on the interstate in Wyoming and i did some ollies on a brick bank in the rest area while waiting for a tow. A wild mustang was on the other side of the barbed wire watching me skate.
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Had a decent parking lot/flatground session waiting for my friend to get off work.
Went through the usual shit, but after reading the bigspin thread in trick tips, I 've been having the itch to try em.
Didn't roll away from any, but the trick is more intuitive than i expected. hopefully can stick one w/in another hour or two of practicing.
Went to throw down switch and got completely tangled and folded straight to the dirt
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RIP Kickflips, we had a few nice years together but I think it's time to say goodbye..
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Played a game of skate at the local on a parking block. Landed my first slappy front crooks on my 2nd attempt on my last letter. Came back and won the game with a slappy back lip (pretty much a slappy crook to back lip).
Was more hyped on learning a new trick.
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Played a game of skate at the local on a parking block. Landed my first slappy front crooks on my 2nd attempt on my last letter. Came back and won the game with a slappy back lip (pretty much a slappy crook to back lip).
Was more hyped on learning a new trick.
Between this and the heelflip thread I just remembered I've only ever landed fakie heelflips in a game of skate
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Schoolyard curbs. Fs and bs 5050s were about the only thing working. Then tried a slap bs feeble and it grinded. 7-8 more tries and then I went to boardslide instead of grind, flew through the air backwards, and slammed hard. I was due one of those…its been a while since I paid up.
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Took the day off yesterday to do boring adult stuff (DMV and the Bank). Once I got all that done went to skate the local park.
Got warmed up and landed my usual tricks on the ledge. Originally I wanted to try this trick I got close to landing last week but wasn't feeling it. Somehow I threw out a kickflip noseslide and thought why not try kickflip crooks. Surprisingly landed it second try but I didn't set up my phone right. luckily I did land another one within 5 minutes and filmed it better. For shits and giggles I thought Id try kickflip front crook and again surprisingly landed that in about 5 minutes.
If anyone cares to see the clip
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwYbLVZBLp6/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==
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Learned slappy crooks and slappy fs 50s today. Feels good and made me forget my horrible flatground session from yesterday.
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This is more of a roundup of past few sessions.
I’ve been nollieing into stuff which I always kind of sucked.
It’s starting to pay off.
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This is more of a roundup of past few sessions.
I’ve been nollieing into stuff which I always kind of sucked.
It’s starting to pay off.
It paid today with a rolled ankle.
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This is more of a roundup of past few sessions.
I’ve been nollieing into stuff which I always kind of sucked.
It’s starting to pay off.
It paid today with a rolled ankle.
That’s a bummer. Heal fast
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This is more of a roundup of past few sessions.
I’ve been nollieing into stuff which I always kind of sucked.
It’s starting to pay off.
It paid today with a rolled ankle.
That’s a bummer. Heal fast
Thanks G.
Doesn’t feel too bad atm, but we’ll see soon.
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Someone dropped off some nice wooden ramps at the diy, a long lil QP, a bigger mellow QP, and a good ass kicker.
We used the small qp and kicker to make a mini fun box, with a ~2' flat on top.
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there was a jam at the DIY yesterday. I got there early and helped clean up the fuckin swamp that appeared overnight. Talked to a couple people. Fumbled an impossible. Got too tired though and decided to head home after only a few hours. I haven't been skating in a month or so whilst I've been medicating but it's getting me back into the swing of things.
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Took the day off yesterday to do boring adult stuff (DMV and the Bank). Once I got all that done went to skate the local park.
Got warmed up and landed my usual tricks on the ledge. Originally I wanted to try this trick I got close to landing last week but wasn't feeling it. Somehow I threw out a kickflip noseslide and thought why not try kickflip crooks. Surprisingly landed it second try but I didn't set up my phone right. luckily I did land another one within 5 minutes and filmed it better. For shits and giggles I thought Id try kickflip front crook and again surprisingly landed that in about 5 minutes.
If anyone cares to see the clip
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwYbLVZBLp6/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==
Props man, those are nice. Getting me hyped to go learn some new tech
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3rd week in a row that my only session was Sunday evening after I put my daughter to sleep at 7 pm. Still better than nothing. You can tell it’s getting dark earlier. I didn’t skate as well this time because I had a lot more drinks in me than I normally would have. My daughter woke up very very early so we started causally drinking much earlier than we’d normally start. When I went for walk at like 9:30ish to the farmers market and the woman I normally buy flowers from wasn’t there so we just strolled through town and ended up on the pubs back patio for a few beers before walking back so I we could put my daughter down for her nap.
Either way it kind of snow balled and by the time I was back skating I probably consumed a good amount of drinks.
Did a lot of the same tricks I always do but somethings took a little longer than normal. Did get a first try nollie flip. Take the good with the bad. In the new thrasher there’s a step hop/ no comply article and it made me want to go out and do a straight step hop and I did a couple then I tried filming one and I did a couple bad ones then hit my self so hard in the crotch I spent the rest of the session laying on my back. I was also wearing these patagonia hiking shorts which are really thin and my balls still kind of hurt today. Lol it sucked.
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Yesterday, I dragged myself to my favorite local park. I say dragged because I’ve been battling injuries all summer & had full blown meltdowns my last 2 sessions. This session went better. I strung together some tricks up and down the higher manny pad & got a few tricks on the bank that I was happy with. Gonna try to skate again tomorrow after work.
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Just skated. Tons of tourists. They was ok today.
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Ive had some hip pain for a while and ive been doing some new stretches on it for the past week. Definitely did too much at first but it hurt so good. Just skated some flat to see how it feels and so far so good.
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Went to an adidas demo in Ithaca ny this Saturday which coincidentally was on my birthday aug 26. Got there a little early, did a kickflip 270 on the hip just as their van pulled up.
Park is divided into two spaces. Old area and new addition. They mostly skated the old space. Got to skate the hip with Mariah duran a bit. Got very close to nollie back heel but kept toe dragging. Miles Silvas came over and started rifling off tricks on the hip like 3 feet high.
I went to the old section and watched Dan Mancina 5050 a 15 foot circle rail. Shit was gnarly and a better birthday gift than anything I could’ve bought
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Snapped the tail off doing a front shuv on sunday, got a fresh deck yesterday and snapped the nose off this time doing another front shuv. Any recommendations on buying blanks in bulk?
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Snapped the tail off doing a front shuv on sunday, got a fresh deck yesterday and snapped the nose off this time doing another front shuv. Any recommendations on buying blanks in bulk?
Maybe don’t front shove anymore?
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First proper skate in more than a decade (knee issues, but I got back into watching vids during lockdowns, but then moved country, bought a business and have no time off. Finally making the time)
There's an old factory that's been torn down so it's all concrete pads just across from my house.
Managed a couple small ollies up. A couple little lines of ollies and drops off things. Got a front shuv off a small bank to close it out.
Gonna fix up some of the ledges, get a slappy spot happening there.
At 40, with dodgy knees and so much time away... I'm pretty psyched.
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Skated a proper street spot with ground in a cheese grater fashion for the first time in years. Usually I’m just at the local diy. Slipped out of a slappy crook, got pinched forward and reacted like an idiot putting my hand in front of me. Entire left palm is a huge abrasion. Nothing really serious, but at 46 this means the session was over. (After 5 minutes in). Need to bike to work. This will be a fun week to come.
First proper skate in more than a decade (knee issues, but I got back into watching vids during lockdowns, but then moved country, bought a business and have no time off. Finally making the time)
There's an old factory that's been torn down so it's all concrete pads just across from my house.
Managed a couple small ollies up. A couple little lines of ollies and drops off things. Got a front shuv off a small bank to close it out.
Gonna fix up some of the ledges, get a slappy spot happening there.
At 40, with dodgy knees and so much time away... I'm pretty psyched.
Sounds cool. Fingers crossed for more sessions to come
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Skated a proper street spot with ground in a cheese grater fashion for the first time in years. Usually I’m just at the local diy. Slipped out of a slappy crook, got pinched forward and reacted like an idiot putting my hand in front of me. Entire left palm is a huge abrasion. Nothing really serious, but at 46 this means the session was over. (After 5 minutes in). Need to bike to work. This will be a fun week to come.
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First proper skate in more than a decade (knee issues, but I got back into watching vids during lockdowns, but then moved country, bought a business and have no time off. Finally making the time)
There's an old factory that's been torn down so it's all concrete pads just across from my house.
Managed a couple small ollies up. A couple little lines of ollies and drops off things. Got a front shuv off a small bank to close it out.
Gonna fix up some of the ledges, get a slappy spot happening there.
At 40, with dodgy knees and so much time away... I'm pretty psyched.
Thanks. It's spring here now too so it's a good start to new season.
Palm scrapes suck super bad. Good luck with the riding.
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Skated a proper street spot with ground in a cheese grater fashion for the first time in years. Usually I’m just at the local diy. Slipped out of a slappy crook, got pinched forward and reacted like an idiot putting my hand in front of me. Entire left palm is a huge abrasion. Nothing really serious, but at 46 this means the session was over. (After 5 minutes in). Need to bike to work. This will be a fun week to come.
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First proper skate in more than a decade (knee issues, but I got back into watching vids during lockdowns, but then moved country, bought a business and have no time off. Finally making the time)
There's an old factory that's been torn down so it's all concrete pads just across from my house.
Managed a couple small ollies up. A couple little lines of ollies and drops off things. Got a front shuv off a small bank to close it out.
Gonna fix up some of the ledges, get a slappy spot happening there.
At 40, with dodgy knees and so much time away... I'm pretty psyched.
Thanks. It's spring here now too so it's a good start to new season.
Palm scrapes suck super bad. Good luck with the riding.
Cheers, mate
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Day 200 this year. Did some kickflips and ended the session on a 1st try BS flip. Keeping them short at the moment, 30-40 mins a day.
250 days is the target, trying to get as close as I can to that before the weather craps out.
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Found an interesting manual pad to drop down manual pad at a random ass park in Washington.
The manual pad is super low and I pulled a muscle in my back trying to balance out a nose manual. I didn't even fall, just adjusted my weight quickly and my back was like, "whoa whoa whoa, what do you think you are doing here. This is too much. Time to shut down." I skated for another 25 minutes getting a really stupid trick (nose manual to drop down regular manual... it looks disgusting and I now realize why I can't remember anyone else doing this terrible trick).
My back is shot and I will be laying on the floor all weekend. But, I want to go back next week and fight for the nose manual to drop down nose manual.
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Went back to my go to ledge for the first time in a few weeks. Got a nice heel flip, which is dope. On the other hand I struggled with my back 50/50s but I'm not mad, there are days they work and days they wont.
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Snapped the tail off doing a front shuv on sunday, got a fresh deck yesterday and snapped the nose off this time doing another front shuv. Any recommendations on buying blanks in bulk?
I haven't snapped a deck doing front shuvs since I started saying ”think Tom Asta" to myself before popping a front shuv.
I can't help you with the blanks situation, though.
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Day 200 this year. Did some kickflips and ended the session on a 1st try BS flip. Keeping them short at the moment, 30-40 mins a day.
250 days is the target, trying to get as close as I can to that before the weather craps out.
Love personal challenges like this. Keep it going
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Skated a little flat after putting my daughter to sleep again last night. It gets dark so much earlier these days. There’s a lot of rocks and sticks and stuff where I skate flat and I didn’t sweep or anything so I just kept hitting rocks and stuff but it was still fun. Did all the shoves as a warm up again which really helps. Did a good feeling switch pop shove and immediately hit a rock rolling away. First try nollie flip and 360 flip. Did just a bunch of basic tricks like all the 180s but they felt good. Especially back 180, switch back 180 and nollie back 180. Then it started raining and was already too dark to skate. Still fun to get out there and do some tricks.
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Good sesh at the park the next town over.
on the A-frame got kickflip, heel, bs and fs shuvs back-to-back. Got a decent handplant in the bowl (in a line!) and a pretty fat, for me, FS Air in the "deep end".
Lots of other fun jibs, but the street tricks vs bowl tricks had me beaming through the sesh.
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Landed nothing I wanted to get done but still managed to have a good time. It was just me and one other soul surfer for the morning session.
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Got crailslides a couple days ago, now doing repetition to get them better today. It's been a dream trick for a while, and it turns out it's fairly easy to do if you can tailslide + are comfortable bending down to grab the nose. Tip for those trying to learn crailslides: if you can do both then try to do a kickturn on coping and grabbing the board crail. I tried this out and the tail slide part of the trick came pretty naturally from that motion in my experience.
A skate dad (didn't do much but push around) also freaked out at me. Dude's kid intentionally dropped his board into the bowl while it was in use, and I got it for him and politely told him "hey watch where you drop your board." His dad saw this entire thing happen, says "Thanks man, he's gotta learn his manners" but like two minutes later he comes back from talking to his kid and is all confrontational.
"What'd you say to my kid?"
Oh, I just told him to-
"You tell him to watch where he drops his board?"
Yeah basically.
"Well you don't have to so fucking rude about it."
The bowl was in use, and I'm not trying to be rude about.
"Well I think you're being a fucking asshole about it. It was an accident. You think you own this fucking park?"
Whatever man, I'm not trying to start anything.
Then he spent like 5 minutes glaring at me at the park entrance with his kid before leaving. Pretty sure he was waiting for me by the entrance/parking lot, but I had no plans to leave so soon.
Definitely was surreal because usually when I have to tell a kid to not do something because it's putting them and/or other people at physical risk, their parents don't go looking for a fight (in my experience, kids won't stop doing the thing that's putting them/people at risk unless someone tells them).
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Congrats on the crailslide, @yourbreakfsat
Beautiful looking trick.
My last three sessions were kind of a let down. The park I isogo to got its floor redone. Everything is slightly faster, which totally fucks up my timing.
Plus my body feels like it is has aged ten years over the course of this summer. Knees and ankles hurt.
So, the last three sessions I really struggled with the few tricks I still have left. Feels like I’m on my final laps in my skate life. Bummer
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finally got my ollie back since hurt my knee back in January. somehow changed my setup to lighter (tensor magnesium trucks, 52 spit classics) weight really gained my confidence to popped the ollie.
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Shoulder has been killing me lately, went out for a struggle sesh at my curb/ledge spot. Pretty standard day, until && rolled up. I am the furthest thing from a fanboi, but the dude does shred. Surreal day, it felt like I was on YouTube or something...
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was too long ago :( :-[
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I am moving soon, so I am getting my last few sessions in at the local parks in the area and trying to cross off some "wishlist" tricks that have been cooking in the back of my mind.
Yesterday, I went to the older pre-fab park in the area, which features a really buttery flat ledge.
I battled one of my wishlist tricks - fakie nosegrind switch front shove out - for over 2 hours. Finally got the make with my phone battery on less than 10%. Probably one of the most frustrating battles I have had in a long time.
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^ post the clip foo!
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^ post the clip foo!
Haha I'm glad someone wants to see it!
I'm putting together a little montage of stuff I did this year - I may post it here once it's done (or just the raw clip of that trick).
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Had to be in VA Beach last week so I checked out Woodstock. It had some cool stuff that even my old ass could skate. It also has some big stuff that is just scary to even look at.
Watched a guy get his first 5050 on a rail, that was rad. He did like 30 more, too. Helped a younger dude figure out how to ollie while rolling faster. It was a good time and I left as the after school crowd was arriving.
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nollie back 180's on transition are easier than regular backside airs
75% easier and 75% more lame
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I'm full suffering. I can't turn the way I like.
I find myself falling off pushing and rolling away weakly from tricks to fakie.
I can stand full weight on the rail without bite.
I hate two footed turns.
I wanna be able to wiggle my toe and have the bloard respond.
Speed wobbles are way way worse with tight trucks. You have to fight harder to flatten the bloard.
It might be easier to start wobbles with loose trucks but with no bushing tension Its easier to stop them.
Weaving in and out of tourist is way harder. Bricks is harder everything is harder.
I'm on white Indy super softs too.
I'm going to have to get over it as I'm out of extra bushings or I'm going to have to run emergency washers. Then people will be like blah blah Daewon style. I'll be like blah blah blah Adelmo. Blah blah look feel like I look like Stranger tho I know I look like me.
But yeah I'm suffering badly.
I wonder if I went to a lumber yard if they could drill out the coin for me. I found the perfect one too.
Probably never going to happen.
If I had a vice I'd sell anti bushings made from awesome old coins for the masses who want all the POSH bells and whistles.
I also miss my 5.8s very badly. That's the perfect size venture I think. I have not tried the 6.1s
I tried a homies thunders the other day too. I might have to switch back. All my deepest pieces of muscle memory was built on thunders and it's instantly obvious to all I should switch back.
I wish that truck was a little bit heavier tho. A lot bit actually.
Venture is the perfect loose truck tho. Nothing can touch that cruising feeling. It's such a difference between the loose venture and the regs venture.
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nollie back 180's on transition are easier than regular backside airs
75% easier and 75% more lame
post urs
post urs
unless you think nollie bs 180 is a ton cooler than BS air, we are in total agreement
tho Bs ollie is a better comparison
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Sessions have been good, but my progression has stalled. I skate twice a week. That would be fine if I already had years of experience, but it's not great when you started from scratch almost two years ago.
I want to skate more, but my knee flares up if I do more than three days. So I need to accept that it's going to take me years just to learn basic shit that some of y'all probably learned at 12 years old. I feel like I won't become "okay" until at least 40 (37 now).
Might give up on tricks and just stick with cruising. It's not like I'll ever play anyone in a game of SKATE or step foot in a packed park. Still, it sucks when you love something so much and can't physically do it as often as you'd like 😖
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i dont call tricks i cant do lame- thats where we disagree
on topic: small ledge and small qp diy spot downtown had me doin some shit, blunt ciphing hoods like my switch front shuvs
bold assumption i cant do that trick - i dont think its that great but i do lame tricks every session
Like my lunch break sesh. I did a couple nollie back 1's on the QP, didn't record it because no thanks, and then did handplants and tiny texas plants. Bolts need tightened real bad cause that thing was squirrely as hell
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First time skating in a week after work picked up like crazy. Went to my local, skated for an hour and legitimately wasn't having any fun especially while the stoner kids were traversing the park. Then a good buddy of mine showed up to the sesh and changed that completely. He got me hyped to skate again. I didn't do too much but I got energized again and started popping up and down some gaps. I filmed him trying to do a line a few times and he got close, but we took a break and didn't try it again. I closed it out with a pop-shuv up the euro gap. I rolled up to the 3 stair hubba but didn't try it yet. I want to get a few more sessions in me before I try it again, I still get scared after my bad ankle sprain a few years ago, but I really want to skate it again.
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I fell back into an old and ugly habit of mine: riding in huge curves before approaching the obstacle. Looks ugly as fuck. And throws others off, because they don’t know where I’m going.
Besides that, I’m happy that my body allowed to skate for more than two hours without hurting too
much.
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I got a fakie flip and kickflip. The new curb height “ledge” at the park is dope as well. Life is good.
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Apparently I forgot how to flip my board after 2 weeks off but still cranked out few of the old standard ledge/rail tricks. Was pretty fucking hyped that I wasn't the oldest guy there for once though. An old friend and guy I looked up to as a kid was there for the first time in a long, long time. He's got to be at least mid 40's pushing 50 but still had a lot of his old tricks. It gave me hope for the future, especially after recently turning 37 and feeling that 40's dread trying to crush my soul. There was another fella a couple years older than me but he was more of a distant skate acquaintance. Still cool to see some fellow old heads out though. We all did fs noseslides or some variation on it haha. The most Canadian trick.
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was skating outside the shop in the parking lot and we sessioned these cardboard boxes that had been flattened. I bigspinned over it a bunch of times in a row which was fun and tried my best Jason Dill nollie half cab on flat over it as well. I think this same day we ended up skating some angled curbs and I got some bluntslide pop outs on it. It’s been a couple weeks since then, I’ll probably skate again Sunday.
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Apparently I forgot how to flip my board after 2 weeks off but still cranked out few of the old standard ledge/rail tricks. Was pretty fucking hyped that I wasn't the oldest guy there for once though. An old friend and guy I looked up to as a kid was there for the first time in a long, long time. He's got to be at least mid 40's pushing 50 but still had a lot of his old tricks. It gave me hope for the future, especially after recently turning 37 and feeling that 40's dread trying to crush my soul. There was another fella a couple years older than me but he was more of a distant skate acquaintance. Still cool to see some fellow old heads out though. We all did fs noseslides or some variation on it haha. The most Canadian trick.
Actually - hitting forty is not that bad, once it happens. Sure, your body will demand more rest and stuff won’t come as easy as you are used to, but the fun remains.
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Apparently I forgot how to flip my board after 2 weeks off but still cranked out few of the old standard ledge/rail tricks. Was pretty fucking hyped that I wasn't the oldest guy there for once though. An old friend and guy I looked up to as a kid was there for the first time in a long, long time. He's got to be at least mid 40's pushing 50 but still had a lot of his old tricks. It gave me hope for the future, especially after recently turning 37 and feeling that 40's dread trying to crush my soul. There was another fella a couple years older than me but he was more of a distant skate acquaintance. Still cool to see some fellow old heads out though. We all did fs noseslides or some variation on it haha. The most Canadian trick.
This reminds me, I've been wanting to ask you if you have any pointers for really standing up on the ledge on these suckers? I tried them a bunch yesterday and can't seem to get them to properly lock in, I just do the ol' slideroo for a foot or so and then fall off to fakie.
Other than that I had a good afternoon session with all the young whippersnappers at the local. I've been going to that park for a little over a year now and it's really fucking cool to see kids who were barely able to push when I first met them land their first fatty to flatty flip tricks.
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Got half cabs back (after 20 years since my last).
Some little blunts on a real small bank. Good little warm up spot. There are two with a metre gap. Dreaming of when I can hit them both in one trick. Soon.
Got a couple mannies.
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After a bit of a break because of a lack of motivation, I am easing back into some more regular flatground sessions, focusing on just one or two tricks each sesh.
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Apparently I forgot how to flip my board after 2 weeks off but still cranked out few of the old standard ledge/rail tricks. Was pretty fucking hyped that I wasn't the oldest guy there for once though. An old friend and guy I looked up to as a kid was there for the first time in a long, long time. He's got to be at least mid 40's pushing 50 but still had a lot of his old tricks. It gave me hope for the future, especially after recently turning 37 and feeling that 40's dread trying to crush my soul. There was another fella a couple years older than me but he was more of a distant skate acquaintance. Still cool to see some fellow old heads out though. We all did fs noseslides or some variation on it haha. The most Canadian trick.
This reminds me, I've been wanting to ask you if you have any pointers for really standing up on the ledge on these suckers? I tried them a bunch yesterday and can't seem to get them to properly lock in, I just do the ol' slideroo for a foot or so and then fall off to fakie.
You probably know the look over your shoulder keeping your arms parallel to the ledge and only turning your hips technique but I feel like one of the secrets is under rotating and locking in heavy on your toe side wheel. Locking in fully square usually makes you stick or kicks you out to fakie like you described. Hope that helps a bit anyway.
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Apparently I forgot how to flip my board after 2 weeks off but still cranked out few of the old standard ledge/rail tricks. Was pretty fucking hyped that I wasn't the oldest guy there for once though. An old friend and guy I looked up to as a kid was there for the first time in a long, long time. He's got to be at least mid 40's pushing 50 but still had a lot of his old tricks. It gave me hope for the future, especially after recently turning 37 and feeling that 40's dread trying to crush my soul. There was another fella a couple years older than me but he was more of a distant skate acquaintance. Still cool to see some fellow old heads out though. We all did fs noseslides or some variation on it haha. The most Canadian trick.
This reminds me, I've been wanting to ask you if you have any pointers for really standing up on the ledge on these suckers? I tried them a bunch yesterday and can't seem to get them to properly lock in, I just do the ol' slideroo for a foot or so and then fall off to fakie.
You probably know the look over your shoulder keeping your arms parallel to the ledge and only turning your hips technique but I feel like one of the secrets is under rotating and locking in heavy on your toe side wheel. Locking in fully square usually makes you stick or kicks you out to fakie like you described. Hope that helps a bit anyway.
Makes sense, thanks a bunch! I'll give it a try over the weekend.
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Hit this at lunch today... a mighty fine backyarder
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyCed9hRXFk/?hl=en
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I just wanted to fs 50 this little stupid noping quarter at my local but I, somehow, went into a fs board, slipped out and slammed on my face. Hole in my chin, went to emergency, 3 stitches and they had to shave my beard. So now I look like a clown too. I just hope the blood gets out of my new hoodie..
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Accidentally went skating in the wrong shoes (have a lot on my mind).
Turns out Kalis LTs are good for heelflips, although a 1 hour skate session tore them up pretty good.
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I figured out its not that hard to half cab to BS 50, thats a pretty fun one - thinking nollie back 180 out might be cool.
Also been doing back boneless back disaster. Funny enough I rock em in faster than the normal version.
More handplants on whatever and 5050 tailgrabs around the pocket
Hit this at lunch today... a mighty fine backyarder
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyCed9hRXFk/?hl=en
Hot Damn! Is that shallow end really mellow or is the camera making it look weird?
Doesn't matter, that shit looks fun as hell!
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I figured out its not that hard to half cab to BS 50, thats a pretty fun one - thinking nollie back 180 out might be cool.
Also been doing back boneless back disaster. Funny enough I rock em in faster than the normal version.
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Hit this at lunch today... a mighty fine backyarder
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyCed9hRXFk/?hl=en
Hot Damn! Is that shallow end really mellow or is the camera making it look weird?
Doesn't matter, that shit looks fun as hell!
Not as mellow as it looks. Fisheye washes its out but its certainly not pool shallow end steep.
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I stomped my board today. I might just stop.
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Set up an 8.25 with 14WB. Gotta keep my front foot very far forward to pop but the pop is big. Thing was flipping like crazy too. Tail felt short but ima ride it out and make it work.
Felt good to powerslide real fast thru leaves on the street
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Set up an 8.25 with 14WB. Gotta keep my front foot very far forward to pop but the pop is big. Thing was flipping like crazy too. Tail felt short but ima ride it out and make it work.
Felt good to powerslide real fast thru leaves on the street
GOAT board dims
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Pumped the mini twice with the homie then was over it so I hooped
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Skated my local park last night. Was trying manny backside flip and my wheel fell off. Went to krudco and watched the Andrew Grabowski memorial video. That guy was underrated rip
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Had a transient lady parked in the skatepark lot with three dogs and a baby. One tied to the bumper, one in a kennel, one just chilling, the other was a baby. Nothing unusual in this part of Colorado these days. Dropped in and did a nice and easy back 50 when I noticed the lady yelling at me. The bumper dog came untied... fuck it's some pitbull type fucker. He ran up to me and I decided if I raised my hands to this fucker I'm catching some teeth. After the dog jumped on me for probably much less time than what it felt like she grabbed him and I escaped with only a slobber mark on my shirt precariously close to my dick. The session was compromised and I went back to toddler Dad life with my skateboard addiction still unsoothed for the day.
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I skated the crappy curb at the park. It wasn’t very fun.
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Set up an 8.25 with 14WB. Gotta keep my front foot very far forward to pop but the pop is big. Thing was flipping like crazy too. Tail felt short but ima ride it out and make it work.
Felt good to powerslide real fast thru leaves on the street
GOAT board dims
Skated it again today. Got some 56mm v cut loopholes as required by terrain but im thinking this shit would outrageously money to just skate flat if I had some 52s. Wouldn’t really be able to push around the city as easily or slappy on tall granite curbs but these wheels are like fuckin boat anchors. Really have to be aware of sucking up my back leg on pop.
Anyways, skated an unwaxed brand new granite curb cut for a bit, just blasting slappy tail power slides. Got the tail over the curb but the front wheels were just barely touching the blacktop. Felt super cool. The perfect right angled granite was slicing into the board a few millimeters deep, looks like the thing got into a knife fight.
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went to the basketball courts across from my house, popped a few ollies, tried to kickflip- shinned it, ollied some more, then went home. pretty successful i'd say.
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I've been skating less these last couple of weeks but yesterday took the board on a stroll at the lake with my wife, just for giggles recreated a few tricks I filmed there before... manny on a natural stone manny table, few slides and grinds on a nice ledge, and to top it off, popped a nice fs flip on flat after two or three tries. Satisfying.
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i think i've skated about 25 sessions over the last 30 days, and the middle two weeks of that were great - but now i'm feeling leggy as fuck and the wheels (metaphorically) are coming off.
to fix it i need to stop for like a week, but the weather won't let me. i'm trying to get as much in before autumn truly sets in and we've had a freakishly dry september and october so i keep feeling it would be mad to rest when there's gonna be rain coming in at some point. so i've been skating on absolute fumes. monday was the worst i've skated for maybe a year and a half. at one point i felt so foreign to myself i thought i was having a mild dissociative episode.
yesterday i was breaking in brand new shoes (franky v 417s). this combined with leggyness meant my expectations were zero, but it went okay. i got bs big spin off the 'big' bump for the first time. i'm on a mission to take every trick i know off the bump and for some reason big spin felt like it would be a hard one to translate, but it was actually fine. i've now only got one regular stance trick to go (front heel). lots left to do in the other stances though...judging by how varial heel went (literally two straight hours of attempts), front heel is gonna be murder. might have to be a spring project.
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Got served trying some third-eye type thing on a big metal statue, in the rain, at night. Almost landed it, next try stuck and flew into metal beams with my hip and shoulder. Haven't walked much in a couple days. Frankly, I couldn't have picked a better way to hurt myself.
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i.b. ollieng north and nollieng 180 and floating my back pivots
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Frankly, I couldn't have picked a better way to hurt myself.
This is a great answer for the next time some dipshit asks me why I skate at 47 years old.
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New board continues to serve me well. Shoes turned out to be what I needed. My feet feel way way better.
Pepper Galaxy Grip is as good as jessup so far. But I hate putting on grip with perforations. It's not right at all.
Shit looks dope af. I'd like more for sure. They might have a new steady buyer.
The way it looks is worth the lil holes.
Cops watch me skate all day not a peep. It's pretty sick. I think it's because I treat the locals with respect. All of them.
I got a couple grinds. Foot traffic was kinda much.
I moved onto the blacktop and went through it all. Blew some minds off in the distance with the imps. I can hear them walking along talking about how they used to skate.
My imp is strong af.
I don't care if the board is flying away if I see grip I snatch it from the air and slam it bolts on the ground. Every fuckin try all day at almost any speed.
I own that trick. I better. I've done millions I bet.
Worked on switch flips a little.
No joy. I cannot flip them straight. I'm going to bang my head cuz my 58mm wheels think I'm luan or some shit.
Also switch Ollie isn't great rn. It's definitely the dragons and all the switch non compliance to get up shit when I find myself cooking around accidental fakie.
Its really hard to just chill on these. Especially when there's 100+ people moving around you who are hypnoticly magnetic to get in your way.
Moths to a flame. Probably why the cops say nothing.
So I changed spots went and did chores and stopped at my 3 favorite barriers in between each labour.
Im almost at the top on one. Some weirdo went and touched the mark and went wow to his wife then stood there looking at me slapping my wheels on the ground. Good thing I got 3.
I wanna do barrier bash nose Manny 80 off the curb into traffic.
I got to the museum outside my house and the brick crosswalk curb was available. I hit that like 30x. My trick rn that feels best I'd long ass back 50 nollie front 80 out. Sometimes they go nose grinder.
If not trying it the upgrade is all icing.
Wind down with two tricks flat lines.
I do cabs every day. That's my best shit I got I think. Feels amazing. I like to nollie back 80 then cab immediately after. So fun. I'm glad I took the time to get them nice again.
That's the session.
Wish I had a good roll in Manny pad. Salem's park is wack af kinda. I haven't bothered to go in some time.
Out here is where it's at.
I'll be in Lynn this week. I'll be able to skate for like 3 hours between appointments
It's always Manny the giant island under the train station. Go back trick off into the intersection between lights. Go again.
So fun
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Got a new board that might be the same shape as my last one, if not, it's damn close.
its probably some standard DLX 8.5 x 14.25wb, but the last deck had me skating strong, gave me some of my best consistency.
Didn't realize how dead that wood was until I set this new one up. Shit was popping like crazy and i had to remind myself to keep up.
I'm in this mindset of needing to scratch the graphics off the nose and tail before scratching the center.
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Broke out the leaf blower and skated in the shop smooth ass concrete. Got me thinking, why don't some way better skaters try the leaf blower push run up? It goes super fast and I got a sweet sweat smear on the ground trying fast big spins.
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My local has a big ass bank that goes straight into a long stretch of flat ground. It doesn't make a lot of sense from a design standpoint but yesterday the crew was all rolling in then trying to do flat ground tricks going as fast as possible which was kinda fun/entertaining.
I managed to do a pretty sad kickflip and a back 180 that felt good.
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I recently moved, and the new location is less than 5 minutes from a beautiful outdoor concrete park, which I'm very stoked on.
I've had some fun sessions getting used to the new layout in the mornings before work. Did a bunch of fakie lipslides to fakie on the flatbar this morning.
Board and shoes are completely toast, though. Duct-taped slip ons and a soggy hand-me-down deck make even simple tricks a challenge.
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Frankly, I couldn't have picked a better way to hurt myself.
yeah, I definitely mean it. None of us gonna live forever and I'll be damned if I save my back pain exclusively for reading too long in bed with my neck crooked.
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I hit an old curb spot yesterday and started working on fs slappies. I almost have the unweight thing down when you mash into it. Didnt get sent flying, which is nice. One nollie 5050 but then I couldnt get close after. Working on grinding my slap bs crooked grinds further. Then tried some slap bs feebles. Those need work. It was a good time and the hour went quickly.
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Kickflipped up a curb and did a nollie noseslide on my favorite ledge in town then beat my chest like a Silverback gorilla
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Fun time skating in the shop parking lot with Day 1 homies today. Ran 7 miles before I came out today too
Weather was perfect here in North Carolina.
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It was cold. Why does everything hurt more when it’s cold?
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I set up a new board this afternoon, and it feels perfect. I might've just stumbled upon the best set up for me!
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Late afternoon curb skate at a new spot I've started working in. It's in back of a building w/ long sections of red curbs. Got a few sections going pretty good over past few weekends.
Slappy's and some flatground before i started trying fakie 50's. Took me about 10 or tries but got a really good feeling one coming out switch 180.
Not bad for 49..
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Not really a skate sesh, but DIY build sesh
We have this really steep and tight drainage ditch spot that we built a pretty big QP on top of. Theres a wallie hip to dive into the ditch, or grind past the corner. Definitely gonna be a tough spot, but should open up a bit more flow if you can manage the bathtub shape of the ditch. Theres also a fucked "channel" gap from the natural ditch, step up to grind/lip the new pour.
Lot of good deck space, coping turned out solid, only problem is there's not much to roll away on - straight into surviving the crust.
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Skated this small asphalt bank. Gotta start in a parking lot, rip a cross a side street, and jam up the bank on the side of a car wash. Pretty small and kinda rounded at top with a sewer grate dead center at bottom. Just popped a few olies and 180s. Primoed a few heels before pushing up the road to a tall granite block that’s nicely waxed but has some awful run up angles. The ground is ok, but it’s those massive concrete pavers, like 8x4, or something, so there are kinda monster cracks between em.
Whatever though. Its all a 5 minute, smooth skate from the new crib. Got spoiled with the easy access spots where I was last at.
(https://i.ibb.co/LpndsJZ/IMG-3004.jpg) (https://ibb.co/LpndsJZ)
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Still trying to take any opportunity I can, even if it’s some quick flat while my daughter naps. Did all the shoves a couple times, a couple kickys, a 360 flip and a nollie flip.
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It was raining so I went to this half built covered warehouse. Wasn’t in the mood for flatground.. but luckily, I’m Aerial Work Platform certified.. so I fired up the scissor lift, drove it into position to put a piece of plywood against, and had a little makeshift bank sesh.
(https://i.ibb.co/cDXFxfs/2-E54-BB88-88-C9-4-CA6-85-F6-4-B8-E30-C58549.jpg)
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My best friend moved down to KC (about an hour away) and it’s forced me to go down there and skate the parks.
Sunday I went down at about 8am and we went to 3 different parks and skated for a good 5 hours. Landed a front board for the first time in a couple years and just felt generally good. I’ve been in a rut with skating recently and I think this is going to get me out of it.
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got to the park and saw over 40 people (smaller skatepark so thats a lot of people) i get out of my car and see my boys sittin on a curb just shooting the shit and warming up on flat so i joined them and they said that the reason so many people were there was that there was a scooter contest. while that sounds like the lamest thing ever but, it was actually so sick. we skated other parts of the park that were out of the way when the scooter boyz were gettin they shit on. i didnt do anything besides handrail tricks and flip tricks on a quarter pipe but it was just such a good day! was genuinely super sick nd everyone was stoked.
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Solo mission. Hopped a ferry out to Vashon island to go skate the newish pump track addition to the park out there. It’s typical Grindline goodness, super smooth with endless possibilities. Then back to the mainland for a sundown sesh with some homies. Drank a little Chardonnay while they cooked freshly caught razor clams at the park. Been laid up with a pinched sciatic nerve ever since, totally worth it.
(https://i.ibb.co/FVCY4PG/IMG-5053.png) (https://ibb.co/FVCY4PG)
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Just got back from skating and have to get ready for work now. I had a good time despite some of my favorite tricks/go-to's feeling unreliable, or outright unlandable for the majority of the session. How do you all deal with days where things just aren't working?
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Just got back from skating and have to get ready for work now. I had a good time despite some of my favorite tricks/go-to's feeling unreliable, or outright unlandable for the majority of the session. How do you all deal with days where things just aren't working?
I just start trying tricks that I cannot do. You never know when something is going to click. I've learned quite a few tricks like this.
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First real cold sesh of the fall/winter season. Dry park, mid sesh, but I felt the changes and aches in my joints.
Got a bluntslide on a bank-to-log. Nosepicks been getting easier.
The fakie huck thread got me stoked on fakie flips again
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Just got back from skating and have to get ready for work now. I had a good time despite some of my favorite tricks/go-to's feeling unreliable, or outright unlandable for the majority of the session. How do you all deal with days where things just aren't working?
I just start trying tricks that I cannot do. You never know when something is going to click. I've learned quite a few tricks like this.
I'm old and got caught with a cheap shot at hockey over the weekend but the weather was nice so today had a mini solo session over lunch. Leg was still sore/dead from and nothing felt right. So I just rolled around, did ollies up the small ledge and worked on manuals. Sometimes I'm sure the above is good, I.e try stuff as your go-tos ain't happening...but sometimes just go super basic and focus on your pop and balance without the pressure of anything you know you should have. Either way take out of it what you can and know the next session is a clean slate.
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Finally checked out the Harewood skatepark in Nanaimo last Saturday. The bowl was way bigger in person than it looked online. Dropped into the shallow end and carved around a bit. Did some janky ledge tricks and got a couple front noses on this round out rail off a curb thing I was pretty satisfied with. Fun quick little session.
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Me and the boys finally got done with our first uni project of the year so we went for a skate. We hadn't gone skating in fucking ages man. Pretty much all of us were lacking tricks but we got em back.
I haven't properly sessioned in a while, but it was a lot of fun and just really nice to fuck around on a flatbar, have the worst game of SKATE of all time and so on.
Shit i love the useless wooden toy.
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Learned slappy back overcrook
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went to a local park rather than the bball court i usually just do flatground on. was pretty hot in the sun and got a decent sweat goin. pop shuvs are getting fairly consistent and i was ollying the 3 stair with ease. was fun to try some things rather than just skate flat and get bored. felt good to get out for sure. front 180s still need some work tho.
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Tried to go back outside and do switch flips. Salem's fuckin crazy rn. People are like the seagulls who said Mine! From that cartoon movie.
They say kickflip but there's just no room to do it
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Great!
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Today I hit day 250.
At the start of the year I set myself the goal of skating 250 days this year, I've been skating as much as possible and have been fairly lucky with weather and injuries.
Stoked to get it, and with a couple months to spare more or less.
Anything over 250 is a bonus now, but I'm stoked either way.
It was also quite fitting as it was the last session at what's been my local for the past couple of years... a divorce is incoming so I'm leaving town tomorrow, probably for good, pretty sad about it as I made some great skate friends here, but life rolls on.
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Learned slappy back overcrook
goals. if you filmed it id love to see
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got to skate to the office for the first time today. 20 minutes thru Paris streets. been wanting this since i was 10. there and back best day of my life frfr
OJ 55mm super juice on new cruiser was a rocket. cant power slide anymore tho..:/
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Each session has been more disappointing than the last. Going to try to lose some weight but it may be time to retire flip tricks (zero fun trying them and lost them all) and see if the fun is still there. I’ve only been going lately just to get out of the house.
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Split my bushing first up so changed that out with a spare I had on hand. Then was messing around on a parking block and got caught up at the bottom. Ended up putting a decent slice in my wheel. Fun sesh
(https://i.imgur.com/Y6d1Ek0.jpg)
http://youtube.com/shorts/QN2QC3w2_O4?si=izREzIQe2cw_tyhr
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Had some really bad solo sessions last month after recovering from a cold/covid/whatever. Felt like I couldn't get of the ground at all. Today was such a difference tho. Met with the big homie and had a blast, even did my first switch flip over a small hip. Skating alone just sucks. Thanks bud, I know you are reading ;-)
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My kid had a full day event at a high school an hour away.
After I dropped her off, I went to a cool little park I’d never been to.
I was cruising around on the snake run when a couple arrived to apparently take photos with their toddler.
The guy walked the kid over to where I was sitting taking a break so I, naturally, said hello.
The dude doesn’t say shit.
He just walks the toddler over and lifts him up on a rail and starts pretending he’s grinding it.
It was very odd.
I had fun skating though. Other than that, I had the park to myself.
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Been using my work lunch break to hit some flat ground near the job site.
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The last 2 sessions were decent for me. Thankfully! Was starting to wonder if it was time for a break.
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got a head nod from a dude wearing an anti hero hoody zipping by on one of those electric hand-controlled skateboards.
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Spun a perfect switch flip for the first time ever, they usually donkey kick half flip straight into the ground. Didn’t land on it but felt like progress. Fs slappied a downhill curb with tons of wood chips and rocks to get stuck on. Got super close to a Slappy blunt to pop in to a mellow hill. It’s right there, I’m gonna get it next time.
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Tested out the hubba I built at what could be a cool diy one day. It’s too steep but I got a front board on it.
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I left work early to get one last sesh in at the skatepark before snow starts to fall, got backside tailslide after about 30 tries (first one of the year), along with backside nose grind. I have only made it out about a dozen times this year, been busy with adult responsibilities. Being old (37) is making it harder to keep up but i am really trying to keep everything that i still have.
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I left work early to get one last sesh in at the skatepark before snow starts to fall, got backside tailslide after about 30 tries (first one of the year), along with backside nose grind. I have only made it out about a dozen times this year, been busy with adult responsibilities. Being old (37) is making it harder to keep up but i am really trying to keep everything that i still have.
I’m the same age, but only been skating since 2021. My sessions have been good since I stopped caring about progression. I’m a full time author who can’t afford to get hurt, so I never push myself now. And that’s fine. I skate alone, so this is purely for me 😌
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Was happy just to be able to roll my front street,after a year of trying to rehab a ruptured Achilles
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I was banging into the curb after dinner.
A friend who works at the spot she asked me for help with the heavy sign out front. The rando guy who parks at the curbs and grills and even once yelled at me on an Instagram video saw me helping the locals. Took off all pissed.
I think he's jel.
I was wondering.
Which is cooler in a line after back nose grinder forward.
Half cab feeble and kinda clunk and full clip back board on the way back to forward
or long Fakie smith FS half cab or staying switch with a nice pop out
All these spots is Mando pop out. I always prefer to come off the middle of a block than the end unless Bags or Losi. Bags/Losi it's easier to get right nearly to the end. Shuffle a cool ass mega whiffle nollie.
Feels so good. I miss it.
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There’s a little manual pad and ledge at a park in my neighborhood. Skated that for about an hour tonight but it’s getting cold.
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(https://i.ibb.co/xXHvYCh/IMG-20231106-182541-796.jpg) (https://ibb.co/djg9tWB)
I also located this obstacle. If it snows this is a place I'm going to film a trick at. Also this hill next to the skatepark.
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what I thought was going to be my regular session of riding around my driveway doing ollies and pop shuvs while anxiety about real life mounts and i question why i even skateboard, it quickly turned into the battle of a lifetime. i decided i was gonna land my first ever kickflip. I know I know. I'm not good. Former college hooper turned wannabe skater but here I am! I love this shit! (sometimes) But yeah I went for it for maybe an hour and a half, sweating my ass off in the southern California sun, questioning whether it'll go down. But after a few sticks, I had to keep the mojo flowing. I hopped back on the board, and landed that MF! Admittedly, my toe tapped the ground. Like a baby, half a second tap. I know. Does this still count as my first ever kickflip? Please say yes. My body hurts. But I will also welcome the adventure of battling again soon to get it completely clean.
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If it feels good and your still rolling it counts
Sometimes I like to land all one footer
Do like v to steezy push.
So fun
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Been super busy since the beginning of October. Work has been really busy. I had few business trips out of state. Being away from my wife and soon to be 2 year old for work makes me feel a little more guilty about going to go skate when I’m home. Then I had some other responsibilities, trips to see family, and a wedding out of state. It’s just been busy. I think I have only really skated like 3 times since October and only once in November where my legs felt like concrete.
Got a little flat session on Saturday and it felt so good (Not at first - took a little to get the legs moving). Did all the shoves, all the Ollie’s and all the 180s, some kickflips, 100 terrible 360 flips I had to tick tack because they were just slightly under rotated, heel flip, nollie flips, a few sketchy back 360s and a bunch of other tricks. Most of stuff was first try and felt good once I started moving a little like the nollie flip, heelflip, and all the 180s. Switch backside 180 and regular back 180 felt the best going fast.
Set up a new board too. First time skating a hockey board and first time skating a bbs after only skating quasi/ any 8.5 ps stix. It’s a similar shape. Boxy and 8.5 with 14.25 wheel base. Maybe a little shorter than the ps stix shape I’ve been skating.
Being in my 30s it’s kind of surprising how difficult it is to get my legs feeling like they should but after a few more regular sessions I should be be back to where I would like to be. I just need to plan ahead better with my sessions having a kid and all. That’s my new plan for December and next year.
Would anyone be down for a challenge to learn a new trick every month in 2024? Maybe make a thread for it and post a clip once a month of your new trick could be on flat or any type of ledge, curb, transition, etc.
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Been super busy since the beginning of October. Work has been really busy. I had few business trips out of state. Being away from my wife and soon to be 2 year old for work makes me feel a little more guilty about going to go skate when I’m home. Then I had some other responsibilities, trips to see family, and a wedding out of state. It’s just been busy. I think I have only really skated like 3 times since October and only once in November where my legs felt like concrete.
Got a little flat session on Saturday and it felt so good (Not at first - took a little to get the legs moving). Did all the shoves, all the Ollie’s and all the 180s, some kickflips, 100 terrible 360 flips I had to tick tack because they were just slightly under rotated, heel flip, nollie flips, a few sketchy back 360s and a bunch of other tricks. Most of stuff was first try and felt good once I started moving a little like the nollie flip, heelflip, and all the 180s. Switch backside 180 and regular back 180 felt the best going fast.
Set up a new board too. First time skating a hockey board and first time skating a bbs after only skating quasi/ any 8.5 ps stix. It’s a similar shape. Boxy and 8.5 with 14.25 wheel base. Maybe a little shorter than the ps stix shape I’ve been skating.
Being in my 30s it’s kind of surprising how difficult it is to get my legs feeling like they should but after a few more regular sessions I should be be back to where I would like to be. I just need to plan ahead better with my sessions having a kid and all. That’s my new plan for December and next year.
Would anyone be down for a challenge to learn a new trick every month in 2024? Maybe make a thread for it and post a clip once a month of your new trick could be on flat or any type of ledge, curb, transition, etc.
I like that one mew trick a month challenge. You oughtta take that to the older dudes thread. I'm gonna still try to get one for December. Thanks!
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Tried to skate today after court. I should have brought my board up to Lawrence. Skating Lawrence ma on dragons is incredible.
Next time I going back up gonna try to film a trick on the courthouse ledge. Do like front nose fakie Manny off the curb.
I got to skate the splitter pit for about an hour. It was fun. I got the hang of rails again. It's harder to slide low shit with rails. Flat bar np.
I did a ton of ally oop nollies and tried to flip my board. 9" might be too much post my Thanksgiving sickness. I'm not back yet.
The new tootsie roll curb is the beez knees.
I'm getting a slightly smaller board next time. 8.75 max.
Hollow 6.1s might be a good idea next time. I'm putting smaller wheels on. It's gonna suck a bit. I'll just put the 58s back on the 8.25.
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fucked up my ankle on a steep band while doing a sw fs flip
haven't been able to skate for months
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tre flips and big flips were randomly super consistent and clean on the hip at the local. maybe its the muskas or maybe it was just a good day. was also first session in three weeks so was super happy to see everyone and skate.
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Snow is here to stay for the season... price of the northwest... still sucks not having my main outlet available.. maybe should start rainboarding....
Last session was maybe two weeks ago, learned front blunts on the noping. Honestly easier than I expected - they're not good, but i rolled away from about 10 and was pretty stoked
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New trucks AND new shoes, spent most of the time breaking in and making adjustments.
But I discovered a new skatepark annoyance.
Every now and then you'll come across these guys where every time they throw their board down the whole park has to stop and wait for them for like 30 seconds because they're gonna be flying through every lane and thoroughfare in the park.
There was this dude at the park and every time it was his turn he'd do this...
- FS 5050 on funbox
- Kick super fast across the entire park to kickturn on south quarterpipe
- Fly at pyramid and just pump over it (no trick)
- Kickturn on the north quarterpipe
- Fly back across park and BS Boardslide flat bar
- Kick super fast back to south quarterpipe for yet another backside kickturn
- Fly back across the park again and bunt a BS 5-0 on the funbox
The thing is, that's not entirely horrible if the park is sparsely populated, but the park was fuckin PACKED.
It's also not so egregious if you're actually trying and landing difficult tricks, at least it's fun to watch then.
But don't make everyone skating every prop in a jam packed park have to stop and wait for you to just carve around.
Clearly the backside 5-0 is the star of your show, so just work on that without having to kickturn on every fucking obstacle in the park first.
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Had a nice lunch break sesh after being out of commission for a bit because of a tweaked left knee. Got a boardslide shuv on one of the bigger out rails in the park. Got some cheers from a little gromlet which felt kind of wholesome. Happy to be back on my board.
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Took me 2 days to clean up the park, shovel snow and clear it from ice. It dryed up the next day so I went for a frosty sesh. Took me forever to warm up and get the legs going. After a hour warmup ollies, 180s and a little ramp sesh I felt pretty comfortable. Kickflips aren't my best friend anymore but i landed a decent one first try. A few 360 flips and slappy crooks later i come back fakie of the big quarter, setting up for a halfcab flip, a fucking pebble send me flying at full speed into the bank. Deep cut on my middle finger, bleeding like shit, looked bend too so up to the ER, luckily not broken but big swelling and two stitches. Need to rest now. I love skateboarding.
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Got to skate flat a little before it started to rain. Short session but still fun. Did all the shoves. First try good feeling kicky and heelflip. Did a 360 flip within 3 tries which feels okay when you basically only skated 2 times over the course of two months and you’re in your 30s. Even just one short session a week feels good. I love skating. Being an adult is corny I got to plan my sessions now.
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Trying to get consistent front 180s off a small drop (like a two stair height). Got a couple yesterday. Thought I'd warm up trying some bonelesses off it today.
Turns out being 40 and not doing boneless' for 20 years makes it a long way down to grab the rail. Started the sesh confused and frustrated... but after a bunch of tries I got them back.
Then landed a couple 180s but still can't get consistent rotation.
First time skating back-to-back days in decades. Took some clumsy slams. Been icing my legs all night now. But damn it's good to get two days in nice sunshine, relearning old tricks.
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I’m the same age, but only been skating since 2021. My sessions have been good since I stopped caring about progression. I’m a full time author who can’t afford to get hurt, so I never push myself now. And that’s fine. I skate alone, so this is purely for me 😌
Not to antagonize, but I’m genuinely curious what injury short of brain trauma would impede your ability to write/type/dictate your work?
I hadn’t skated in about 6 weeks since the time changed and it’s now dark and cold after work. But I got out for a few hrs on Sunday and felt pretty good. Until the next day when my entirely body was sore af.
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Terrible session I could not land anything exept sw back 180 which led me to landing my first sw heel back 180. Glad about that but the session sucked
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Basement session. Nothing exciting on my low ledge, but got to skate which is nice.
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There is some snow around here but i cleaned a patch of my fav mini plaza. I have always skated the smooth part of the plaza but now it happened that the sun has melted most of the snow on the rough part and it was easier to clean so it was a refreshing experience to use 2 new ledges at the old spot.
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There is a buttery smooth curb height manny pad ledge at the local and I got a bunch of bs 5050s on it today at speed. Always wanted to try them and finally did after watching a local ripper do them across the whole thing with zero effort.
Really liking the move up to an 8.75 with 6.1 Ventures.
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Drove around for hours trying to find a spot where the ground wasn’t soaked and/or covered in road salt. Failed, and ended up at the new concrete pump track, where I immediately bodied myself in front of some scooter kids and their parents.
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Cleaned up the new spot, brought the whole kit.
Shovel, blower, rub brick.
Looked around for more potential spots around the place.
Came back later after I’d dumped the tools back home and had 45 minutes of figuring out the space.
Glad to have something to skate a few streets away from my place.
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Last skate of the year, in the garage as the weather is proper shit in the UK atm.
This marks day 275 of skateboarding for me this year, i originally set out to do 250, so I'm stoked to have got that many in. Will have to try and beat it in 2024.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1ZVo5ZNX6M/?igsh=NzBmMjdhZWRiYQ==
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Last session for 23 and first one after caching covid for the first time. I felt like shit and couldn't skate for longer than 30 minutes but I was kinda happto be back on my board again.
Happy new year.
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I learned frontside rocks (I’ve done them here and there but they’re always a battle for me) was so pumped to get 10 on Sunday morning. Today (monday) I was doing crooked grinds on my box in my driveway and that was fun
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It was productive and I finally got my nollie back lips back l!
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I hit up the skatepark of Baltimore a couple nights ago. First I cruised the perimeter looking for an outlet to charge my phone, but to no avail, and making myself look like a tweaker in the process. There were some teenagers messing around in a corner and 3 dudes skating. At one point i noticed we (the people skating) all had on halfcabs, all different colourways. I pointed this out to them, and they tolerated my jibber-jabbering about weed being pointless now that it's legal, and where to find and not find a good burrito. They told me crab cakes and lake trout were a thing. My board was pretty razored and I felt l had no flatground game. I took it easy and sat on a couple decent noseslides and an ok ollie over a corner. It was fun watching the locals.
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had my first session in like a month couple of days ago. it it felt a bit off of course but all in all the session was ok.
highlight for sure was sticking a 360 flip first try with my homie's sk8mafia micro deck.
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I visited my parents at christmas day, we ate a nice goose together. Wanted to go for a walk afterwards but nobody wanted to move. The surgery on my hip was 2 months ago at this point, so I grabbed my rain board and cruised a bit. My outfit wasn't the best for that occassion (slimmer pants, puffy jacket and Reebok's) but it felt so fucking good to be on the board again.
I was so hyped, I put my phone on the ground and filmed a lil clip. Sorry for spamming this thread with my nonsense. If anyone cares, I will link the clip below.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1jyoJWt8UO/?igsh=MTN3bjRteGFpZ2Q4bw== (https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1jyoJWt8UO/?igsh=MTN3bjRteGFpZ2Q4bw==)
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I went to the Southbank in London on Saturday morning and had a great session. I always expect to have a bad session there because I don't really gel with skating flat or ledges, but more often than not I take it easy I'm surprised at how much fun I have. I finally landed a melon grab off the wedgey block and got some nice firecrackers down the stair set. It's quite fun doing more unusual stuff in front of all the tourists.
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Street salt makes ceramic bearings faster.
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Landed my first nose slide 360 shuv out on the local curb before the blizzard hit
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2YGf-Bur52/?igsh=ZjhwM3g4cGcxc3Bs
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Learnt kickflip front krook (did 2 I wasn’t exactly happy with, gonna try clean it up next sesh). Feels good learning tricks in your 30s after skating 20+ years.
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Learnt kickflip front krook (did 2 I wasn’t exactly happy with, gonna try clean it up next sesh). Feels good learning tricks in your 30s after skating 20+ years.
Congrats. Sounds dope. Pretty jealous.
I was at the indoor since it is raining for months.
Just did slappies. Trying to clean up my frontcrooks. If someone has a tip, why they turn too much in the frontside direction on the way out -making half my attempts end up in out lipslide position, I’d be eternally grateful.
Some girl broke her ankle. That was way too heavy for me to stomach
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our skatescen is dying, indoors skating me and 2 other people. thats shit
did flip fs k first try. that was great
sometimes its first try and other times it takes 50 trys
went home early... wanted to do some fakie fs k, but no hype.
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First session back today after I started on Zoloft (1 week in).
It was weird, felt like my feet and body weren't connected at all, but I seemingly can still skate.
The side effects are wild on this stuff though.
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Weather has been a bit butt here in NJ. I got a little wet flat session out in the parking lot for the house I live next to yesterday. It was fun did a lot of tricks that felt really good, but I made this weird resolution that I'd learn a new trick every month in 2024 but I really haven't had time with a pretty demanding job, a 2 year old, other responsibilities so the clock was sorta ticking. Either way I did get to watch the new baker has a deathwish and I saw Foy do a frontside half cab heel and I figured that I don't think I ever tried one but it could be easy because I used to do rick flips in high school but I never would do half cab heels outside of skate and never did it that way. Either way it was harder than I thought lol but I did a couple. It was a cop out to be honest and sort of ruined the session but felt good to get out there. I did it on my egg board because I don't really like skating an egg and it was wet and rainy. Fun still though.
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I got a few slappies on a manny pad / curb in my neighborhood. I went full Franky stan on this one, with the Franky Villani Dickies and the Franky deck. Got a wee clip too.
https://youtu.be/C_HK0VIj5lA
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Last Saturday was my first time skating in 2 weeks since I had some annoying health issues (kidney stone) so I was pretty happy to be back on board even tho I sucked terribly.
Yesterday was way better and I was able to kickflip again since my legs were pretty dead the day before but it got better.
Today my legs are pretty sore but I'm happy about it since it means that movement was needed.
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went street skating
that shit really bangs on u
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First time in years I had headphones on while skating.
I got a really bad tinnitus atm. I needed something slow, deep low bass, chilled out. So I skated to Dub Techno..
I just carved the Bowl and tried to hold my 50s for longer. All with a little bit more speed then usual.
I had a blast.
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First time in years I had headphones on while skating.
I got a really bad tinnitus atm. I needed something slow, deep low bass, chilled out. So I skated to Dub Techno..
I just carved the Bowl and tried to hold my 50s for longer. All with a little bit more speed then usual.
I had a blast.
Bowl skating to dub techno sounds sick!
Last skate sesh was two Saturdays ago. Landed a couple of nollie pop shuvs over a bump to traffic barricade while one of my old skate lesson students worked on ollies over a smaller one. It was fun giving each other pointers and keeping the stoke going. I've never really done a nollie trick over anything either - personal NBD achieved.
My knee was pretty jacked after that session, so I've been off the board recovering and doing whatever non-triggering exercise I can to keep things moving. Hoping to get back on the board this Saturday, fingers crossed.
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yesterday, I was as at the local doing my thing and this dude moseys his way into the park and sits on the noping hip I love. Didn't care about that, as I was skating whatever else anyway.
What was strange, is the guy was clearly watching and knew something about skating, as he would acknowledge when I landed a trick. However, he would speak quietly out of the side of his mouth, and not look at me when he spoke. I faintly heard things like "yeah yeah, caught that one" or "this guy is blazing rn..." but all while looking around like he's in the Sistine Chapel. I tried to say thanks or something like that, but he didn't even engage me when I spoke directly. Weird, but whatever...
I got my few tricks and went to the shop nearby to say what's up and that. I went back to the park maybe 45 min later, and dude is still there. Same spot, doing the same halfway compliment/stoke but didn't "emote" even once.
My younger friend who completely rips and gets better everyday shows up and starts shitting on the euro (360 flip, BS flip, shuv-heel, bigflip, etc..). He gets to trying cab flip, kinda getting close but not really, and the loiterer tries to give him advice like "you need to focus on your ollie before trying that" or absently "this kid needs to work on his basics"
Confirmed in my mind he was a fucking kook and left
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^ Haha wow. Sounds like he was Slap posting but irl.
It’s currently 12*F here, but I’ve been dying to get out so I tried to skate flat for a few minutes. I’ve never seriously tried to learn 3 flips but I really want to get them this year. People make them look so easy in footage/trick tips… but I fear I’m in for a long, gruelling, frustrating journey.
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I had too much weight in the back seat, and I slipped out trying to back 50 this micro down ledge. Apparently I forgot how to use my arms to save my face...
Ended up bashing my chin on the ground, and split that soft skin under my jaw pretty wide, stitches were considered. Used a sani-pad and band-aids instead.
That was a couple days ago, seems that it's healed itself together decent. Currently forming a thick fucking scab thats itchy af.
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I went to this parking garage at 1 am to do some mannys and shit and i found this cool gap over wall to ledge and tried to front tail fakie that for a while but its hard to slide the front tail when dropping down from that much higher that the ledge, i kept trying until i heard these homeless people yelling and throwing shit and i could hear them getting closer and i was kind of cornered if they stepped to me so i just left because i was scared. I then went to get a mc chicken from the McDonald's beside the garage and then on my way back found this little out ledge that looked like it skated pretty well but it didnt, every time i hit it little chunks came out and it didnt grind at all. I got a little shitty back 5-0 jib and then smoked weed and walked around a bit looking at some classic downtown spots that were covered in snow and then went home at like 3am
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I just went to the diy. On the way back I bombed the double hill. It was just paved. I think I could get a trick in if I had a filmer
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I can't even remember, I'm 34 now and life is so hectic I can barely find the time to rest let alone skate. Working as a teacher's a demanding job so is raising a family. I miss being able to tune every negative thought to land a trick at the park, it was an amazing feeling. But, I never get to step on a board again I would be happy with what it's given me and how it shaped my personality .
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It was on Wednesday, express session after work. 40 min, got sweaty and enjoyed it.
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It was a rainy one today so I went to the local underground spot. Nice n dry so I start warming up - well I wasn’t the only one:
2 bums were there and they were DOING each other!
And one of em’ yelled at ME for skating!
They said “Get outta here you ****ing skateboarding LOSER! Can’t you see we’re having a GOOD TIME?!?”
“I’m sorry!” I said.
But then one started getting up and the pants was down and looked like it was gonna get crazy!
So I grabbed my board and flung it at the bum that was dom’ing the sub-bum.
NO intention of causing physical harm!
just wanted em to chill the **** out!
Got outta there but now I’m down a skateboard.
F**k…
Had favorite trucks, brand new Dragons AND Swiss on that bitch!
Won’t think about getting a rain-session there ever again!
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Just pushed around the neighborhood, skated this set of stairs, this weird ledge thing and bombed a big hill by my house. First time I've skated in months. Winter sucks.
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Showed up to a lit up parking garage curb/manny pad with the smoothest ground I’ve ever skated outside of a skatepark. There were two younger dudes there already. I said whatsup and started cruising around. One was trying to kickflip over a cone off of the curb and the other one was hunched over his phone playing trap music and ignoring the world around him. I tried to stay out of cone kids way and just did flatground and some slappies on the parking blocks. Younger dudes took off and then I spent an hour and a half trying to learn front 180 fakie manuals. Got close a handful of times but now my body hurts from tossing myself at the same trick for so long. Did land a switch heel though so that’s always nice.
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After work session was ok. Did a few slappies & some shuvs, 180s and struggled to land a few kickflips. I been wanting to work on harder tricks and learn something new but I’ve been having to cut my recent sessions short due to some creeping back pain. My body has been feeling completely off lately. All the basics & just popping onto a ledge are suddenly a huge struggle. Hoping next session goes better, probably need to fix my sleeping schedule or something.
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I can't even remember, I'm 34 now and life is so hectic I can barely find the time to rest let alone skate. Working as a teacher's a demanding job so is raising a family. I miss being able to tune every negative thought to land a trick at the park, it was an amazing feeling. But, I never get to step on a board again I would be happy with what it's given me and how it shaped my personality .
I'm sorry about this, I am also 34 and I am kind of enjoying life right now.
Just pushed around the neighborhood, skated this set of stairs, this weird ledge thing and bombed a big hill by my house. First time I've skated in months. Winter sucks.
Minnesota, right?
To reply to the thread,
Last skate session wasn't really one, it was actually at the store with first intentions of buying new shoes. However when I saw this DGK deck, I had no choice but to buy that instead. I will have to buy shoes next week when I get paid.
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Got my first session in February today. Life has been really busy with work (I took pto Monday and still managed to work 48 hours by friday), central New Jersey weather, spending time with my wife and daughter (honestly this is all I ever want to do), laziness, excuses, bad hair days, doing stuff to prep for my sisters upcoming wedding next month (which I’m happy and stoked for), pimples and being drunk, so it’s been hard to get out there.
I grabbed my little box from the furnace room of the house where our old apartment was and got a little flat box session and it was fun.
First time skating the 18 east half cab. Did all the shoves to warm up. First try kicky, 360 flip, and nollie flip. Then skated the box a little.
I made a few New Year’s resolutions. One was to cook more for my family instead of my wife doing almost all the cooking and that’s been going well and really fun. The other was learn a new trick each month of 2024. Did another cop out since I don’t know the next time I’ll skate in feb. Tried frontside half cab noseslide (so switch version of nollie back tail to fakie). I went up to the box slow just to see how it felt and I did it first try. I ended up doing a bunch of them and they felt good. Filmed one for my group chat (which is just two of my best friends. I’m 33) and realized it looks just like a front half cab were I dink my little ass box with my nose. Whatever, I’m rolling away.
Both new tricks I picked this year were only cause I skated 1-2 times that month and I just needed to do something I didn’t feel like trying before. January frontside half cab heel (I used to do Rick flips in high school so I thought it would be easy) and frontside half cab noseslide. Hopefully I do something I really wanted to learn in March and not some frontside half cab cop out. Either way was super fun to skate and I’ll always love it.
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Local was closed due to maintenance, so I went to the curbs. Did some slappies, frontside and bs 5050s, couple slap crooks, and rolled outta there happy.
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bled
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Was cut short. Some nutjob tried to run up on me. I was skating my favorite curb spot. It's close by and I rub bricked and sauced it myself, to taste.
This guy passes by on the sidewalk but he was looking me the whole time, a very telling sign. Something was going to happen I could feel it. I was watching him out of the corner of my eye, I skated back around to get my little shoulder bag I had off to the side, and this guy actually double backs and cuts through the bushes and is heading right towards me. I got out of there in a flash. I'm sneaky like a cat.
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First session with almost no knee pain after months. No matter the tricks I landed, it was pretty glorious.
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First session with almost no knee pain after months. No matter the tricks I landed, it was pretty glorious.
Fuck yeah! I started a new job back in august and taking the stairs everyday really fixed my knees up that were feeling weak.
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Just went for a 3am skate. I realized why I suck at filming myself. It's because it's impossible to capture my type of skatan like that. A stationary camera drop is not going to catch my soul.
The coolness in me is like the coolness of Jahmal or of Rick or whatever. It's about the point a to point be and how you get there.
I'm fuckin dancing in the streets like jagger and Bowie. All old.
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First session with almost no knee pain after months. No matter the tricks I landed, it was pretty glorious.
Fuck yeah! I started a new job back in august and taking the stairs everyday really fixed my knees up that were feeling weak.
Taking stairs instead of escalators definitely helps gaining some strength. Its those small things sometimes, glad it has helped you :)
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got beat up by what i assume is my favorite mini ramp (not so sure anymore)
just one more person skating it with me so no time to rest, slams, swellbow, slip outs, tail chipped, sore muscles three days later.
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couple of oooohs a few ahhs and slipped in one or two oofs
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all this nyc dudes look the same to me
Im old and bitter
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Skated the new skatepark near my house, was finally "nice" out in nyc. Was super discouraged at first, bummed on imminent ankle pain and my new board being a tad longer than I would prefer. Did some yoga first and biked over to the park. Session was really slow and lonely. After warming up and getting used to the giant pyramid hip all those negative thoughts went away. I was having fun zipping around the park, I nollie flipped the hip and the way I caught the grip so early and stomped my trick I felt like I was on top of the world. reminded myself why I love this thing. Only skated for an hour and my ankle pain started to humble me so I called it and went home. I miss the days of skating for hours with no fatigue but still a W in my book.
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Second session in a row after a year off, and god damn my back and legs are blown out, but it feels so good to slowly get all my tricks back. I was really afraid i had lost everything but i actually only lost my pop. All I have to do is just skate regularly and ill get my level back in no time. Wont skate for a day to let my poor muscles rest and reduce the risk of injury tho
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annihilated my 10 year old sisters heart supply jagger eaton pro model board, I'm 200 pounds
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Tried to summon the homies but no one was around. Went to the park on my own and there were some little ones there on pintail longboards. Their dad was cool. Talked to him for a bit about setups and encouraged the kids who were learning to carve the bowl corner.
Then my homie showed up and we started skating the little quarter. Landed frontside disaster for the first time ever! Stoked.
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I can't even remember, I'm 34 now and life is so hectic I can barely find the time to rest let alone skate. Working as a teacher's a demanding job so is raising a family. I miss being able to tune every negative thought to land a trick at the park, it was an amazing feeling. But, I never get to step on a board again I would be happy with what it's given me and how it shaped my personality .
Been considering going back to school to teach Spanish/ESL, thinking that it might be less of a 24 hour grind than my current job. But it sounds like... not? Maybe every job wants its pound of flesh from the heart now, idk.
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Achieved a big guy victory during my lunch break session - landed a bunch of frontside lipslides on the bump to rail without cracking my board.
Shout out NHS VX boards!
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spent the lunchbreak at the local park. too much cool guy action from, who i saw the first time there. spiting, obnoxious shouting and getting in everyones way filming erratic lines. slammed on a front crook slappy. cruised around a little bit. left
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I went for a quick session despite rain and cold, my usual covered spot, just to try a heelflip on my new bloard. After a short warm up I landed a nice heelflip first try and immediately called it quits because I did not want to spoil the good feeling by not landing another nice heelflip afterwards. ::)
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I landed my first back 3's yesterday - smoked half a j and just randomly "felt it". never really practiced that move as it always felt so far away from being possible
first try was way closer than i was expecting, 2nd or 3rd try was mostly a make although pretty slide-y
My first really good one was in a small line - ollie up curb, pop back 3, ollie off curb - no slide, just a small little pivot to finish the rotation
did a few more out of a bank, but nothing that was better than the prior make
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I’m awful at transition but I had a great time here this evening ;D
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Garage miniramp long lunch session
New Aces finally have a groove
Vulcs with aftermarket insoles
Fakie disasters on lock for the first time
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I pretty much exclusively skate street but a mate got on me to go a local park. I landed a few rock 'n' rolls and one of them felt pretty good, hadn't done one in ages.
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I’m awful at transition but I had a great time here this evening ;D
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Damn that looks fun! Inspired to go roll now.
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spent the lunchbreak at the local park. too much cool guy action from, who i saw the first time there. spiting, obnoxious shouting and getting in everyones way filming erratic lines. slammed on a front crook slappy. cruised around a little bit. left
Did you by chance see this person later at the grocery store buying like fifteen milky ways?
I did a flyout indy finger touch... and sat hard on a ride-on ledge trying to be like Steamer on that no-comply front tail in BHADW 2; and somehow twisted something in my front foot on the way down.
I was not feeling skating today.... but it's been a week since the last session...
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Went to Round Lake Skate Plaza today to practice a bit and was surprised noone was there besides my two housemates and I. Was a beautiful weather here where I live. I practiced my tic tacs and got used to the board more by doing long strides on my pushing feet.
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Had an exhausting surf session yesterday. Lots and lots of paddling for two waves (unreal waves they were though...) Anyway, thought I'd go for a quick skate post-surf but wasn't sure I'd have the physical energy.... Ended up skating two different North Oregon coast parks solo for hours and finding some new lines I'd never had before. Trucks and body felt loose and groovy. Slept amazing last night.
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I feel like an idiot asking but I'm not the biggest waxer. Me caring about butter conditions is really gotta bean age thing.
I think I screwed up with this gulf wax.
https://i.ibb.co/QbzSsvD/IMG-20240309-211546-104.jpg[/img] (https://ibb.co/QbzSsvD[img)
So I've used it on 3 curbs last few days. Even stopping to do so when skating wasn't possible because of weather.
Two curbs are going as normal but my current main favorite curb the newest one is sticking. I mean sticking. Like thrown like aluminum.
Two days ago it was going.
What's going on? Any ideas. I should scrape and start over?
That was my session. It nose slides still
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I feel like an idiot asking but I'm not the biggest waxer. Me caring about butter conditions is really gotta bean age thing.
I think I screwed up with this gulf wax.
https://i.ibb.co/QbzSsvD/IMG-20240309-211546-104.jpg[/img] (https://ibb.co/QbzSsvD[img)
So I've used it on 3 curbs last few days. Even stopping to do so when skating wasn't possible because of weather.
Two curbs are going as normal but my current main favorite curb the newest one is sticking. I mean sticking. Like thrown like aluminum.
Two days ago it was going.
What's going on? Any ideas. I should scrape and start over?
That was my session. It nose slides still
Over 40 here, and I skate a lot of curbs and ledges. I use a ton of gulf wax.
I feel gulf wax is really good for curbs and stuff, but it doesn’t weather well at all.
Is that one curb more exposed to the elements than the others? Maybe it got skated more than the others, thus the wax rubbed off more noticeably?
For myself, especially after a lot of rain, I liberally apply gulf wax. I session about 15 mins, apply a pretty thin 2nd coat, then I’m usually good for the session (probably 2 hours of slappy crook variants — no wonder my leading-leg’s knee is fucked 😅).
I skate super early and am likely to be the first to skate the curb in a given day.
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I had a great time skating my local this morning
Feeling more comfortable since I've been hitting it weekly
Stoked
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I drive up to the skatepark on a saturday night, put my meth pipe in my sock underneath my redneck camo pants so I can hit it in the bowl, put my 24oz beer in my hoodie and skate up to the park. I skate right infront of a cop car passing by and head up to the park. I get up there and its loaded with kids about 12-14 years of age, no one over the age of 16, then its all hits me. I realize I cant drink my beer and smoke cigs infront of these kids anymore, I question my whole life, me as a 30 year old dude doing the same dumb thing these kids are doing on a saturday night, I suddenly feel like a massive loser, what am I doing with my life I question. The massive reality of the situation hits every cell of my body. I quickly turn around and head back to my car and dip. That was the last time I ever stood on a skateboard, a year ago. I got sober shortly after that. Its kinda pathetic, but in that moment I realized skateboarding is just looser shit. Im still addicted to skate shit, but man, I watch videos now and it doesnt even seem gnarly and I dont get hype, it just looks stupid and pointless to me. I think that moment was just me realizing I need to finally grow up.
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I still get hype of photos in the mag though I think skateboarding was made for photography
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I drive up to the skatepark on a saturday night, put my meth pipe in my sock underneath my redneck camo pants so I can hit it in the bowl, put my 24oz beer in my hoodie and skate up to the park. I skate right infront of a cop car passing by and head up to the park. I get up there and its loaded with kids about 12-14 years of age, no one over the age of 16, then its all hits me. I realize I cant drink my beer and smoke cigs infront of these kids anymore, I question my whole life, me as a 30 year old dude doing the same dumb thing these kids are doing on a saturday night, I suddenly feel like a massive loser, what am I doing with my life I question. The massive reality of the situation hits every cell of my body. I quickly turn around and head back to my car and dip. That was the last time I ever stood on a skateboard, a year ago. I got sober shortly after that. Its kinda pathetic, but in that moment I realized skateboarding is just looser shit. Im still addicted to skate shit, but man, I watch videos now and it doesnt even seem gnarly and I dont get hype, it just looks stupid and pointless to me. I think that moment was just me realizing I need to finally grow up.
If it’s in your blood, it’ll come back one day. Enjoy the break, though, and the sobriety. Skating as an adult still exists, and it’s fun. Just different… but more freeing since nothing matters and it’s purely for the sake of fun now (and totally grown-up things like exercise and health).
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I had a great time skating my local this morning
Feeling more comfortable since I've been hitting it weekly
Stoked
One of the best feelings when you got your local dialed in that you can simply flow also on off days. Feel your stoke!
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Dolo filmed this trick for the Fl video , three weeks sober
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I’m awful at transition but I had a great time here this evening ;D
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Wow, beautiful park and landscape! Where is that?
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I’m awful at transition but I had a great time here this evening ;D
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La Kantera skatepark by Bilbao Spain.
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Well... For this session, I Took pictures of my housemate, Chris just outside the house earlier today... Was kind of a short and fun photoshoot. I didn't skate much but it was great.
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Did a switch ollie
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Spent like 90% of my time out there just doing ollies on flat. I haven't skated consistently in a long time and most times I try to get back into a groove, I end up feeling frustrated and sad that I can't skate as well as I used to. So I'm just trying to focus on absolute basics and feel like I'm in total comfort and control of the board again. It's been nice.
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I drive up to the skatepark on a saturday night, put my meth pipe in my sock underneath my redneck camo pants so I can hit it in the bowl, put my 24oz beer in my hoodie and skate up to the park. I skate right infront of a cop car passing by and head up to the park. I get up there and its loaded with kids about 12-14 years of age, no one over the age of 16, then its all hits me. I realize I cant drink my beer and smoke cigs infront of these kids anymore, I question my whole life, me as a 30 year old dude doing the same dumb thing these kids are doing on a saturday night, I suddenly feel like a massive loser, what am I doing with my life I question. The massive reality of the situation hits every cell of my body. I quickly turn around and head back to my car and dip. That was the last time I ever stood on a skateboard, a year ago. I got sober shortly after that. Its kinda pathetic, but in that moment I realized skateboarding is just looser shit. Im still addicted to skate shit, but man, I watch videos now and it doesnt even seem gnarly and I dont get hype, it just looks stupid and pointless to me. I think that moment was just me realizing I need to finally grow up.
grow up to post about skating without really doing it. ur a bitch holmes, u should get back on the tweak
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uhh its saturday night time to carry a skateboard with me as an excuse to smoke ice in the bowl
glad u quit dork
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I drive up to the skatepark on a saturday night, put my meth pipe in my sock underneath my redneck camo pants so I can hit it in the bowl, put my 24oz beer in my hoodie and skate up to the park. I skate right infront of a cop car passing by and head up to the park. I get up there and its loaded with kids about 12-14 years of age, no one over the age of 16, then its all hits me. I realize I cant drink my beer and smoke cigs infront of these kids anymore, I question my whole life, me as a 30 year old dude doing the same dumb thing these kids are doing on a saturday night, I suddenly feel like a massive loser, what am I doing with my life I question. The massive reality of the situation hits every cell of my body. I quickly turn around and head back to my car and dip. That was the last time I ever stood on a skateboard, a year ago. I got sober shortly after that. Its kinda pathetic, but in that moment I realized skateboarding is just looser shit. Im still addicted to skate shit, but man, I watch videos now and it doesnt even seem gnarly and I dont get hype, it just looks stupid and pointless to me. I think that moment was just me realizing I need to finally grow up.
grow up to post about skating without really doing it. ur a bitch holmes, u should get back on the tweak
There’s really no reason to say this, even if you don’t agree with what he posted.
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I would get high at night and skate for 6 hours straight, the park had lights, it was a good vibe im not gonna lie, good way to end a 20 year run. Little homie can say what he wants, he's just mad, he should hit some tweak n lighten up.
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come on dude we need to see six hours of mobbed fakie shuvits!! the sea isle park is a ghost town without you
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This reminds me of when berra cried over tony hawk for smoking weed
Get over it nerd
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Went down a big ramp today for first time, I was scared out of my mind, even with pads and a helmet.
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Morning session at the local. Nobody I knew was there, but you had the cool older guys around my age and a younger ripper who was also cool. I skated like ass but still had a decent time. Skating once a week blows sweaty ass though. Adult life…whaaaa.
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Been practicing Ollies all morning. Hope I get it down before sunset.
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I feel like an idiot asking but I'm not the biggest waxer. Me caring about butter conditions is really gotta bean age thing.
I think I screwed up with this gulf wax.
https://i.ibb.co/QbzSsvD/IMG-20240309-211546-104.jpg[/img] (https://ibb.co/QbzSsvD[img)
So I've used it on 3 curbs last few days. Even stopping to do so when skating wasn't possible because of weather.
Two curbs are going as normal but my current main favorite curb the newest one is sticking. I mean sticking. Like thrown like aluminum.
Two days ago it was going.
What's going on? Any ideas. I should scrape and start over?
That was my session. It nose slides still
Over 40 here, and I skate a lot of curbs and ledges. I use a ton of gulf wax.
I feel gulf wax is really good for curbs and stuff, but it doesn’t weather well at all.
Is that one curb more exposed to the elements than the others? Maybe it got skated more than the others, thus the wax rubbed off more noticeably?
For myself, especially after a lot of rain, I liberally apply gulf wax. I session about 15 mins, apply a pretty thin 2nd coat, then I’m usually good for the session (probably 2 hours of slappy crook variants — no wonder my leading-leg’s knee is fucked 😅).
I skate super early and am likely to be the first to skate the curb in a given day.
Boom yes. Weather and salt. I'm scraping it rn.
PALS! I relearned a secret about shuvs. Emphasis on nollie fakie.
So example.
I front shuv(nollie bs) with the heel of my foot completely lined up with the heel side rail of my bloard. Understand?
Like gives you total control of the trick as you will never lose contact with the bloard as it spins under foot.
Everyone should know that because I' tell every one this.
And a visual aid of this control method stance.
https://i.ibb.co/rmmqH6w/17102708916901399108702991075831.jpg[/img] (https://ibb.co/rmmqH6w [img)
What I remembered is the more you hang your heel over the rail the higher it pops ... Soooo I can now nollie and fakie shuv into Manny's again.
I feel like structured again now I'm sure this is true
Emphasis on fakie nollie
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had a fun session with a homie's eggzilla 2.
that thing's huge. played some games of skate with this beast, and i was able to land a hardflip on it
some regular sized-deck skating also happened. it was good.
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Went to Campus Pool indoor concrete park (Bristol, UK), i'm not usually big on indoor parks but i really enjoyed it...cheap too.
I need to take days off work midweek more to skate, was a really nice way to spend the afternoon.
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Shit was loose as a moose. Feels good skating nice cupsoles. Hips and back and knees feel great after skating hard for 2 hr. Nothin special other than 60F and sunny. Fuckin hell
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Fell warming up on the Manny pad.
Kinda got it going but then fell on a fs disaster.
Wandered over to the parking block, got a couple boardslides but then fell backwards hard when I got pitched from a 50/50.
Tried to just skate flat but fell again.
Icing my back now. Fuck this day.
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Shit was loose as a moose. Feels good skating nice cupsoles. Hips and back and knees feel great after skating hard for 2 hr. Nothin special other than 60F and sunny. Fuckin hell
Dang that sounds nice
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threw a switch heel front nose, didnt come close
surprised my switch heels are still there
gonna try again since ive never flipped into anything in my life
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I work in the office three days a week, and remote the other two. On my in-office days i skate for an hour on my lunch to break the day up and get away from my desk. Usually hit up one of the local curb spots, but yesterday I hit up the paid/padded/members only skatepark in the area to switch it up and skate some transition. Was both kinda lame and super fun at the same time. Explaining to your coworkers why you have helmet hair after lunch is totally worth it.
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My girl got a surfskate so she was practising standing and rolling ( she's 43 and never skated). She went from not being able to stand unassisted to pushing and rolling down some little banks. Then ate it... and is wondering why she's so sore now. But she loved it and is excited to skate more. There's a pump track across from her office which she wants to build up to.
I jarred my knee dicking round with fakie shuvs.
The sun was out and it was nice otherwise
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Finally skating with a wrist guard and getting a few small ledge/flatground sessions in. Cold front came through and I was skating some lanes at the local bank. It was nice getting my pop back and a few shuv-its and flips. Hopefully I'll be able to go this afternoon after I'm done with the early shift.
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Moved back to where i grew up and am skating in the same small neighborhood i was when i was learning to drop off sidewalks. Im out there in the middle of the street doing endless boardslides on the flat bar and a couple of separate old, old timers walked by and said something like “you’re still doing this after all these years, huh?” Kind of trip moving back to skate the same streets, in front of the same neighbors that i was like 27 years ago. Shit, the city has left the same cracks and gaps in the pavement that have always been there.
Anyways, was doing the boardslide routine, choppijg it up with the neighbors and hooked my dog up to the harness and ripped a mile on the cruiser thru the park a few houses down.
Its a real cool feeling to be content skating in front of the house some days. Feels like an old friend and new beginning
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Moved back to where i grew up and am skating in the same small neighborhood i was when i was learning to drop off sidewalks. Im out there in the middle of the street doing endless boardslides on the flat bar and a couple of separate old, old timers walked by and said something like “you’re still doing this after all these years, huh?” Kind of trip moving back to skate the same streets, in front of the same neighbors that i was like 27 years ago. Shit, the city has left the same cracks and gaps in the pavement that have always been there.
Anyways, was doing the boardslide routine, choppijg it up with the neighbors and hooked my dog up to the harness and ripped a mile on the cruiser thru the park a few houses down.
Its a real cool feeling to be content skating in front of the house some days. Feels like an old friend and new beginning
this is amazing
i felt that
cheers!!
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I went to my bank spot but as it was Good Friday it was rife with kids playing. To be fair, it's a schoolyard/playground. Anyway, I got a few kickflips and a heelflip on the bank despite all the mayhem around me. Felt good as it had been a while since I got a bank sesh.
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Been practicing Ollies all morning. Hope I get it down before sunset.
Awesome. Keep your eyes on front bolts until you can go fast and trust it. Stay on it. Best thing ever. Don't worry about madness or gear yet. Just skate. Ollie crack, then 2x4.
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Skated 2 miles for exercise. Legs were old. The whole feeling invigorated me. I've done 20 miles on bike since then, I'm training my body to get back. Pittsburgh is harsh for everyday skating, but I don't want to give up. I landed my first 5-0 to fakie on transition, got 360 flips back, and jammed a three trick line full speed.
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Skated 2 miles for exercise. Legs were old. The whole feeling invigorated me. I've done 20 miles on bike since then, I'm training my body to get back. Pittsburgh is harsh for everyday skating, but I don't want to give up. I landed my first 5-0 to fakie on transition, got 360 flips back, and jammed a three trick line full speed.
Felt full speed. Probably quarter speed.
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I learned to crosslock 5050s on a small round rail. Big milestone as someone who never grinded rails. Delighted, they feel great!
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threw a switch heel front nose, didnt come close
surprised my switch heels are still there
gonna try again since ive never flipped into anything in my life
I believe in you. I suck at switch heels. I'd kill for them unfortunately I'm a switch v heeler. Maybe a switch inward after a hundred tried. Definitely switch Lazer in under 20 tries.
I should try switch Lazer switch crooks. We could call it the crack.
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Havent skated flatground in a while and ended the session on first try switch flip and switch tre back to back which felt really good. Them legs getting ready for summer :)
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90% of session was just frontside 5050’s on a ledge. Just getting absolute fuck sure they’re solid before I try them on round bars again.
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90% of session was just frontside 5050’s on a ledge. Just getting absolute fuck sure they’re solid before I try them on round bars again.
Yeah I don't like front 50s on rails. Two trucks on a rail is more dangerous than one for me.
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Front 50s on rails are sketch for me
Back 50s all day - unless they aren't working then I ain't forcing it
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Had a fun and fast park sesh with my cousins. Got some good airs, a heela monster, and a handplant or two on the good QP, and a front pivot on the peninsula hip in the bowl
Had bsng on ledges for a few days but now they're feeling weird again
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My curbs going again. Back 80 switch grinds of all kinds. So fun. Nollie v out of a back 50 is the only trick I'm thinking about rn
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Proper dogshit, feel like every session gets worse, although with kids, a job and no skateparks or even actual spots in local area it’s hard. But even banker tricks are failing, shit’s tough
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Rode my bike around for a few hours, got home, and skated to some fresh b ball courts to do manuals and hay makers
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threw a switch heel front nose, didnt come close
surprised my switch heels are still there
gonna try again since ive never flipped into anything in my life
I believe in you. I suck at switch heels. I'd kill for them unfortunately I'm a switch v heeler. Maybe a switch inward after a hundred tried. Definitely switch Lazer in under 20 tries.
I should try switch Lazer switch crooks. We could call it the crack.
Thanks!!
But god damn, I think you're doing damn fine without the switch heel haha. Switch varial heels are so dope, but I'll be keeping an eye out for that last one
is that an nbd? and why do I think of Jordan Hoffart while trying to picture a switch lazer crook?
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Not a "post your footage" thread, not a space to brag about what tricks you landed, but rather an opportunity to describe the "little things" of your latest session.
Who were you with? Where did you go? How was the vibe? Was it mellow, or did someone go off? Were you alone? Was it your first time skating in a while? Was it cathartic or frustrating? Was the best part the skating or something else entirely?
Share it here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=clCbxeE5mq0&pp=ygUNT2RlIHRvIGZyYW5reQ%3D%3D
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Skated with this guy Oliver from Newark at Tompkins and ended up skating the streets with his friends. Made a skate video out of it. Check it out.
https://youtu.be/RJrM7FHnLj4
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last one was amazing. Just flat and some trashcan stuff because it was raining. I landed 2 sw heel back, I am so hyped on that, I ve been working on them a bit. Good times
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I had a lot to do this month for my sisters wedding (which was really fun) so with that work, family, my toddler, getting sick and other stuff so another month I have not been getting any sessions. Skated for the first time all month yesterday when my daughter was napping.
Being in my mid 30s it’s definitely hard to go that long between sessions so it was sort of hard. I did all the shoves to warm up and that made things feel a little better. Did flip my board a bit. Some kickys and 360 flips. Honestly I did a flat ground air walk and that felt like a very good stretch might add that to the all the shoves warm up.
I’ve been still trying to keep up with my goal of doing one new trick a month despite only skating like 1-2 times a month since the start of 2024. Learned this trick (?) that I saw Brad Cromer do in his YouTube video thing he posted the other day at 3:27
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G9xs3zBys4s
No idea what this would be called but I used to do something like this when I was in highschool where I would do this pressure half flip thingy then I’d spin it front shove style with my back foot so I just did the same thing but turned my body at the end. I landed my first two. Then started over thinking them and they got sketchier but I can do them.
after doing that I ended up skating some garbage from the house next to me from some construction they were doing. It was like some wood nailed to some other wood and I put it on its side and it was like a little steepish incline on the one side so I kept going from one side and ollieing into then turning around and walleing it. It was way more fun forcing myself to do tricks.
I need to skate more but damn is it fun. Looking forward to the next session and now that I’m done with all the wedding stuff and my kid is getting older and more independent I’ll start getting more sessions.
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I had a lot to do this month for my sisters wedding (which was really fun) so with that work, family, my toddler, getting sick and other stuff so another month I have not been getting any sessions. Skated for the first time all month yesterday when my daughter was napping.
Being in my mid 30s it’s definitely hard to go that long between sessions so it was sort of hard. I did all the shoves to warm up and that made things feel a little better. Did flip my board a bit. Some kickys and 360 flips. Honestly I did a flat ground air walk and that felt like a very good stretch might add that to the all the shoves warm up.
I’ve been still trying to keep up with my goal of doing one new trick a month despite only skating like 1-2 times a month since the start of 2024. Learned this trick (?) that I saw Brad Cromer do in his YouTube video thing he posted the other day at 3:27
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G9xs3zBys4s
No idea what this would be called but I used to do something like this when I was in highschool where I would do this pressure half flip thingy then I’d spin it front shove style with my back foot so I just did the same thing but turned my body at the end. I landed my first two. Then started over thinking them and they got sketchier but I can do them.
after doing that I ended up skating some garbage from the house next to me from some construction they were doing. It was like some wood nailed to some other wood and I put it on its side and it was like a little steepish incline on the one side so I kept going from one side and ollieing into then turning around and walleing it. It was way more fun forcing myself to do tricks.
I need to skate more but damn is it fun. Looking forward to the next session and now that I’m done with all the wedding stuff and my kid is getting older and more independent I’ll start getting more sessions.
💯👊
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Skated for the first time after taking 3 months off for knee injury rehab. Trying to take it slow and build my confidence up so I mostly just pumped around in the bowl, practiced my fav flip tricks (could only land a kf), practiced some ollies and wrapped it up.
Went for a run with my dogs after and felt a big pop in my knee like it shifted back into place so now its real tender and bruised up, was a big blow as I thought I was finally getting back to 100% since I've had this reoccurring injury since June last year and thought all that time off and strength training was working. Hoping it's just a small speed bump, but going to take more time off again since we're getting another snow storm this week here. Fingers crossed I can stay healthy and get back to my old skate form once it's finally real spring/summer weather :-\
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Proper dogshit, feel like every session gets worse, although with kids, a job and no skateparks or even actual spots in local area it’s hard. But even banker tricks are failing, shit’s tough
When I feel like that I start skating for distance. Plan my route around hills. Put on my soft wheels maybe.
Just work on my switch stride. It's my center. Maybe do a bunch of foot on the ground tricks in-between cars at the red light. Find a hill work on holding your speed after a 360 slide in all stances in case you ever end up at that Halloween event that thrasher does.
I'm going to try and plan a tour around skate events behind my bands back. I gotta get us all passports ::)
They don't believe me that we're going to fuckin Japan. I'll go rn.
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Coming back from a rolled ankle got a few tricks I was happy with, ollied and fs180 over the cones set up high and then got a bolts kickflip over the cones lower, I've been working on getting them over stuff lately.
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I went to my local in the middle of the day by myself, it was empty as usual. I’ve always been unhappy with my kickflips since they’re significantly lower than my heelflips so I dedicated pretty much the whole session to unlearning my gross downward flicks and learning to flick out off the nose. By the end of the day I had landed 3 kickflips over a flat bar that’s just under knee height. Overall I’d say it was a success.
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Went to the park today on my way home from some errands. Completely empty because it was early afternoon, cold, it rained a couple hours before, and it was 30mph winds. I did two laps to warm up the legs, a couple regular and switch 180s, got blown off a curb sized ledge doing a ride on grind and called it a day. Fuck all that wind I’ll just go tomorrow.
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Skated for an hour and a half today trying the same trick over and over for an upcoming video. Self filming. My buddy was there doing his thing and I apologized to him for acting whiny and not being fun to skate with but he understood. Kept landing the trick but with toe drag. Finally got a make that was clean aside from a very slight shift of my right foot on the rollaway. Whatever. Now I’m very sore, plus I’m dealing with an irritated nerve in my left leg.
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Park was kimd of packed for 8am but that’s a weekend for ya. Everyone was cool, I didn’t fall too hard, and I slid a few things I couldn’t slide last time. Yew.
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Shitty. I’ve been having this recurring pain in my inner hip/plexus area and it’s been making it impossible to skate. Had a pretty good day about a month ago, and maybe I over did it, because it’s been killing me every time ive tried to skate since. This has been bothering me off and on for the past 4 years or so and I wish I could find a lasting solution
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Shitty. I’ve been having this recurring pain in my inner hip/plexus area and it’s been making it impossible to skate. Had a pretty good day about a month ago, and maybe I over did it, because it’s been killing me every time ive tried to skate since. This has been bothering me off and on for the past 4 years or so and I wish I could find a lasting solution
I'm not totally sure if I understand the spot where your pain is coming from. I have it on the front of my inner hip near the groin. Been doing yoga and stretches and it feels way better now. Yoga poses that helped a lot for me: Frog, Cobra and Pigeon stretch. Maybe I am totally off here but if anything on my body hurts I go to Youtube and search specific stretching or other exercises to get rid of the pain. A physiotherapist told me to hold a stretch for at least 90 seconds so that your muscles get used to that new movement, which made sense to me. Just my experience, but you got this mate.
First real session in the warm sun (24°C / 75°F ) today. I filmed a little line and my homie also got a cool line and another clip which I am hyped on. I got a new handle for my cheap camcorder and the clips are getting better since I picked up filming. The sun was brutal and I am not used to the warmer temperatures yet. I am hella toasted now.
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Shitty. I’ve been having this recurring pain in my inner hip/plexus area and it’s been making it impossible to skate. Had a pretty good day about a month ago, and maybe I over did it, because it’s been killing me every time ive tried to skate since. This has been bothering me off and on for the past 4 years or so and I wish I could find a lasting solution
I'm not totally sure if I understand the spot where your pain is coming from. I have it on the front of my inner hip near the groin. Been doing yoga and stretches and it feels way better now. Yoga poses that helped a lot for me: Frog, Cobra and Pigeon stretch. Maybe I am totally off here but if anything on my body hurts I go to Youtube and search specific stretching or other exercises to get rid of the pain. A physiotherapist told me to hold a stretch for at least 90 seconds so that your muscles get used to that new movement, which made sense to me. Just my experience, but you got this mate.
First real session in the warm sun (24°C / 75°F ) today. I filmed a little line and my homie also got a cool line and another clip which I am hyped on. I got a new handle for my cheap camcorder and the clips are getting better since I picked up filming. The sun was brutal and I am not used to the warmer temperatures yet. I am hella toasted now.
Yoga is key! As the years move on, yoga and stretching before / after a sesh are the only way I can continue to skate multiple days in a row.
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Skated outta the driveway and into the street. FS 180 and rode switch down the small hill til i got to the entrance of the paved path. Too filled w debris to skate switch so just pushed thru the crust, sliding across some sand piles til it cleared up and fs 180d to switch again and pushed. Did the whole 180 back and forth to reg/switch the rest of the path.
Got to a parking lot and hit a quick slappy on a crumbling parking block and skated down by the river til i got to the granite blocks where i stuck to bs noseslides. Probably did 25 of em and it felt good to know my limit on a tall ass block.
Some weird looking people came out of a restaurant nearby. Dude was roided out and artificially tanned so much i thought he was a black dude in leather pants. The lady also had leather pants. Their perfume/cologne poisoned my olfactory senses from 30 feet away. Really, really strange to see these throwbacks from another time and place. The lady got into an older honda suv and dude got into a Maserati that seemed to have a missing catalytic converter.
Moved on from the granite blocks to scope some potential spots where there was once a full pipe, but that was gone so i made my way to a small elementary school and skated a narrow handicap ramp that right angled into a 2 stair for a bit. There was also a fun wall, just higher than knee, maybe 20 inches with a fence on the other side and a dumpster in front of it. I was popping onto the top of wall riding between dumpster and fence and popping off after dumpster.
Skated up the road toward a church, cruised back and forth over 30 feet of brick a few times and bombed a small but freshly paved road switch.
Walked back to the parking lot that had the crumbling block, jammed by some barefoot lady and went at the block, slid out on an oil spill and the lady freaked out when i hit the slappy.
Pushed thru the paved trail, doing small ollies every couple feet across the half mile length.
Fucking love skating street
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Skated the local saturday morning
Had a blast doing ride-on bs 5050's on the curb
Tuned a few 180's
Had fun
Still sore
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First time skating the sk8mafia micro board. Way more difficult than I figured it would be but it was pretty fun. Did all the shoves and flipped it a few times. I was able to get some good kick flips but it was really weird to get used to flicking it at first since it so small and I'm sort of a bigger guy these days.
After skating the micro board it made everything done in micro dos even more wild.
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I walked to the top of a hill with the missus to watch the eclipse. Once it was at ahundo, I did an impossible to hillbomb.
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Is been little more than 1 month since I fucked my ankle and last Sunday I went out for some pushes. Switch pushes feel weird. Still can't flick so a sw fs and a nollie bs 180 mad eme quite happy.
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Not a session but yesterday me and the family walked to BK to get dinner so I grabbed my board and pushed through some streets felt great
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Was feeling kinda off, but I kept trying to force it. Wheels felt small and slow, been breaking in new trucks, my pants were fitting weird...
Ended up slipping out on an FS ollie to fakie over a hip and shot my big toe straight into the wall, luckily didn't break the fucker... Took a primo before that.... now my feet are killing me today
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Was feeling kinda off, but I kept trying to force it. Wheels felt small and slow, been breaking in new trucks, my pants were fitting weird...
Ended up slipping out on an FS ollie to fakie over a hip and shot my big toe straight into the wall, luckily didn't break the fucker... Took a primo before that.... now my feet are killing me today
BUSH
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counted 5 different people walk by the spot at different times all wearing panda dunks
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counted 5 different people walk by the spot at different times all wearing panda dunks
Went to six flags… Pandas were taking over.
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After learning to kickflip during lockdown, finally learnt how to kickflip and BS 180 up a small ledge yesterday.
I've been able to heelflip up stuff for a while but always had a mental block with kickflipping up things...now i've landed a few it's almost easier than heels.
Small victory and long overdue, but pleased with myself.
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Hit the curbs for a quick 20 min. Got slappys and slap krookeds, just kept doing those two tricks. Felt so good, I didnt want to leave. I also realized Im ready to learn a few more tricks since thats all I can do.
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My older friend who is a pillar in our scene completely broke his ankle. It was the gnarliest injury I've ever seen in person. Super bummed.
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My older friend who is a pillar in our scene completely broke his ankle. It was the gnarliest injury I've ever seen in person. Super bummed.
Tragic, man. Heal well, homie.
Fuckin’ skateboarding. It’s so cruel to us but we love it so. I’m mid-30s and have broken the same ankle three times. I’m about 2.5 years removed from the last one (luckily it was clean, no surgery needed). Feeling pretty solid these days - always wear a brace and will for the rest of my skate days. You never know when it’s going to go again though - always a concern
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Skated something ledge height for then first time in years.
A DIY bank to ledge to bank, took a bit of time to figure out the approach but I managed frontside and backside 50s.
Hoping to pivot into tail slide (stall, I’m realistic) soon
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I just cab 540 in the pit front of like 400 people. I don't think they've seen someone rip before because people kinda went bananas.
I saw no one was dancing so I said fuckin fuck it. We gotta get people hopping. So I did a few pressure flips. Then I did nollie bigs fakie bigs and a couple Bertelmans.
Then I waited for my moment threw down switch and blauw!!!! Fakie 540 with only a 90⁰ lil perfect twist at the end.
Not to mention my band played the best set of our lives to day. Nothing but love too. What a fuckin day.
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Bro Bowl on 2 hours of sleep..wasn’t working went to Res and forgot about sucking at skateboarding with some PBR’s.
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Landed a decent (for me) 360 flip second try. Pretty happy about that. Hit some curbs a little faster than usual. Def wore down my trucks down a little. Sweated and didn't hurt myself. Good little sesh with some good people.
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I'm bummed that my only curb/ledge spot that's any good for doing noseslides on is a bust. The council have approved planning permission to put some shipping container food & drink market there, so it's all cordoned off. Need to start looking around for somewhere new now.
I haven't skated in over a week and I was rusty as fuck, almost as if I hadn't skated in a month. I was struggling to do basic shit that I could do easily last week. Decided to take the pressure off and just accept that it was gonna be one of those days and I ended up redeeming myself a little bit in the end. I need to accept that I need to skate way more often if I want to be consistent. Working full time and living somewhere where it rains 75% of the time fucks with that though.
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I hopped on my new board today with a whole new set-up that I spent a lot of money into. It was weird to get used to because my old board was so rickity and rackity when I ride it. With the new one, everything feels so smooth and the turns are so responsive. I was scared at first, but am getting the hang of it. Not used to the smoothness, was so used to the jankity rankitiness of the old one.
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I'm bummed that my only curb/ledge spot that's any good for doing noseslides on is a bust. The council have approved planning permission to put some shipping container food & drink market there, so it's all cordoned off. Need to start looking around for somewhere new now.
I haven't skated in over a week and I was rusty as fuck, almost as if I hadn't skated in a month. I was struggling to do basic shit that I could do easily last week. Decided to take the pressure off and just accept that it was gonna be one of those days and I ended up redeeming myself a little bit in the end. I need to accept that I need to skate way more often if I want to be consistent. Working full time and living somewhere where it rains 75% of the time fucks with that though.
I use Google maps sometimes to scout for the cutty spots. I found a ledge/ insanipad in a freight yard in Lawrence. Need abed rail to be popping but it's probably the best altered ledge to film at in Massachusetts on account of all the trains in the background
Sorry about your main spot g
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Felt like dog shit. I don’t get to skate enough at all so I try to get any session in I can and I never been closer to focusing a board then when I couldn’t nollie flip. Felt like a complete baby. Didn’t focus it. Did a 2nd try kicky and 360 flip, but it all felt like dog shit.
Did all the shoves. Fakie frontside shove was the best feeling thing I did all day.
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Some friends wanted to meet by a lake nearby to hang out after work, and it was the nicest Spring day we’ve had - straight sunny, no wind, no chance of rain - so I brought my board.
I pushed around in the bike lane on my way and popped some manuals and ollies occasionally. Nothing too special, it felt good to just cruise.
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Finally got a clip for the new fancy lad video
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Had a bit of a skate-date with the GF, just cruising the park path next to the river, though a few city blocks.
She hasn't skated after eating mad shit while skating with the dog a number of years ago, but she was looking pretty comfy for the most part. She even "bombed" a couple hills, nothing crazy but definitely fast enough to be on the scary side.
i was skating pretty good, doing my own thing along side her. Skating fakie has been really fun lately, and my switch stance and pushes are coming along (5-7 years late). looking less like the funky chicken
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Took a beating today but had a lot of fun on the session. Was on the way home bombing a hill and took a tasty slam, popped one of my tinnies open on the fall now my hoodie is soaked in beer. Good times.
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Just skating around town, hitting whatever popped up. Tryna go hard with the fs 360 in the street. Its ugly but feels good
Met an all black german shepherd pup
Saw this family stop to pick up some litter and the little girl said “you are really good at skateboarding, mister!”
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Met up with the homie at the local for a Friday morning session. Got a few short ride-on tail slides on an icy corner, never had the balls to try them before. Board slides to smiths and started bringing them around to hurricanes (I dont have rails and was surprised to get into them) on the double sider were new for me. Then I worked on front crooks, they are coming soon. Great time. The homie ripped, as usual. Cool to watch a younger techy guy learning curb tricks and having a blast doing so.
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New board, trucks and shoes at a skate park in Seoul. Hadn’t really skated in about 2ish months, so I skated for about 5-6 hours. Rusty doesn’t begin to explain it but I learned how to wallie, had always bunted them and told myself “yeah yeah one day”, that day was the day I suppose. That was about 2 weeks ago, have since then been doing 3 kickflips a day in my hotel room, mega swamped with work and life.
The Tom Knox shoe flicks very nicely.
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I was waiting for my friend to get off his greyhound and went to skate berri square in Montreal, did switch front 5050s for an hour and got hassled by 3 homeless people pretty fun happy im getting more consistent with the trick good 8am sesh
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can't trust a rail after I broke my hand this fucking sucks
but I first tried a sexy cab heel
New board, trucks and shoes at a skate park in Seoul. Hadn’t really skated in about 2ish months, so I skated for about 5-6 hours. Rusty doesn’t begin to explain it but I learned how to wallie, had always bunted them and told myself “yeah yeah one day”, that day was the day I suppose. That was about 2 weeks ago, have since then been doing 3 kickflips a day in my hotel room, mega swamped with work and life.
The Tom Knox shoe flicks very nicely.
good shit
wallies make no sense to me
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can't trust a rail after I broke my hand this fucking sucks
but I first tried a sexy cab heel
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New board, trucks and shoes at a skate park in Seoul. Hadn’t really skated in about 2ish months, so I skated for about 5-6 hours. Rusty doesn’t begin to explain it but I learned how to wallie, had always bunted them and told myself “yeah yeah one day”, that day was the day I suppose. That was about 2 weeks ago, have since then been doing 3 kickflips a day in my hotel room, mega swamped with work and life.
The Tom Knox shoe flicks very nicely.
good shit
wallies make no sense to me
Granted it was one of those ledges that has a little slant at the end so it sort of forces you to do it, but it felt cool because I was sailing them decently, should’ve done a 180
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I'm bummed that my only curb/ledge spot that's any good for doing noseslides on is a bust. The council have approved planning permission to put some shipping container food & drink market there, so it's all cordoned off. Need to start looking around for somewhere new now.
I haven't skated in over a week and I was rusty as fuck, almost as if I hadn't skated in a month. I was struggling to do basic shit that I could do easily last week. Decided to take the pressure off and just accept that it was gonna be one of those days and I ended up redeeming myself a little bit in the end. I need to accept that I need to skate way more often if I want to be consistent. Working full time and living somewhere where it rains 75% of the time fucks with that though.
Sounds like you live in the UK?
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Skated an indoor park 40min away from me that's pretty slippery. Manage to land 360 flips and not hurt myself. That's my goal for the summer. Last resort are good shoes but I worry about getting a heel bruise with them.
Weather is still crap generally, either cold, wet or both.
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Went to a park I have never been in before, since it is basically a gigantic weird bowl. Just now I'm trying to develop my bowl skills. The park is shaped like a foot. The big toe is a proper bowl with coping, the other toes form kind of a pump track. The heel is another bowl and the rest of the feet is like a ditch wall. Don't know why I never got myself there before, but it is a sick park, there are so many lines you can take. But it is a lot bigger than it looks on photos and the ground is crusty as fuck, pretty scary for me.
Today I just did some carving around, still need some work on that, very often I do ugly kickturns where they are not really needed. I will go easy until I get confortable to try to hit the coping.
It is pretty far away from where I live, but next time I want to cruise there early in the morning, since it fills up with bicycle dudes in the afternoon. Between there and my place there's a mexican place, getting up early, hitting this park and coming back home midday getting some nachos on the way home sounds like a good routine to get into.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPfDyb8bdMsi7JKPVf5jze0oRrAxm8kL0QUAlj-=s1360-w1360-h1020)
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I don’t think that park would’ve been designed if there weren’t drones.
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Still having these recovery scared af sessions where everything feels terrible. Still happy that I had it.
Could do a really shitty nollie bs 180 on a bank which was my goal of the day.
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Skated at the skate park for the first time in several months. Crazy how much better the ground is than everything I normally skate. Had a good session and it was really fun. Pieced together a couple lines. Did a first try wall ride and then pretty much landed everyone I tried - same with one footed frontside rock and rolls. Did my normal stuff but it felt fun. Wallie/pole jammed the back of the flat bar. Kickflip fakie on the bank mid line. A couple good feeling 360 flips and nollie flips in between skating the obstacles. There’s this little curb sized ledge and I did a couple nollie back smiths where I just did a tiny pop and they were a bit squirrelly but I rolled away. Did a bunch of backside noseslides.
Since they opened this huge new park a few towns over I guess no one goes to the park I frequent most and they just built a new bowl in the past few years and I skated that for a while before I left. Haven’t skated much transition lately so it was really really fun.
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built a quarterpipe yesterday (rainy day activity), had a quick session today when it was dry for a few minutes. was fun looking forward for more, also building a slappy next!
is there a thread for DIY building? couldnt findone on quick glance
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New authentics and wallies = bloody heel. Got some ugly ones at least.
Some durp decided to park in front of the curb I just prepped and started breaking in. Whole parking lot empty, but they decided to park in front of a yellow instead of a parking space. Gotta love idiots.
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Getting better at bowls. I'm now managing to maintain speed with frontside carves. I thought I would struggle a lot with it, but I'm making progress pretty fast. Don't know why I have been scared of this for so long.
Also, I got too confident and decided to bomb a hill on loose Ace trucks on my way home. Took a slam but it was graceful, textbook Aikido breakfall shit. Only bruised my knee a bit, didn't even rip my pants. I have never been this proud of a slam before.